Theories of Everything the Quest for Ultimate Explanation Book by John Barrow C1991
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Book "Theories of Everything - The Quest For Ultimate Explanation" by John D. Barrow, copyright 1991.
In excellent condition with very minor wear. The book looks new. Dust jacket has some crinkling around the edges.
Contents
Ultimate Explanation
an eightfold way
myths
creation myths
algorithmic compressibility
Laws
The legacy of law
the quest for unity
Roger Boscovich
symmetries
a flight of rationalistic fancy
goodbye to all that
Initial conditions
at the edge of things
axioms
initial conditions and time symmetry
time without time
chaotic axioms
cosmological time
the problem of time
absolute space and time
how far is far enough?
the quantum mystery of time
quantum initial conditions
the great divide
Forces and particles
the stuff of the universe
the copy-cat principle
elementarity
the atom and the vortex
a world beside itself
constants of nature
the importance of being constant
fundamentalism
what do constants tell us?
varying constants
into the wormworks
broken symmetries
the never-ending story
broken symmetry
natural theology: a tale of two tales
the flaws of nature
chaos
chance
the unpredictability of sex
symmetry-breaking in the universe
organizing principles
where the wild things are
big AL
time
being and becoming organized
the arrow of time
far from equilibrium
the way of the world
selection effects
ubiquitous bias
is pi really in the sky?
in the centre of immensities
the number of the rose
philosophies of mathematics
what is mathematics?
mathematics and physics: an eternal golden braid
the intelligibility of the world
algorithmic compressibility rides again
the secret of the universe
is the universe a computer?
the unknowable
select bibliography
index
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