An accessible, illuminating and stimulating introduction to Roger Penrose's vision of theoretical physics for the twenty-first century. Includes incisive contributions from Abner Shimony, Nancy Cartwright and Stephen Hawking. This is a fascinating account of the problems of modern physics, ranging from small-scale quantum physics to the physics of the Universe.
A hundred years ago Darwin and Wallace in their theory of natural selection, or the survival of the fittest, explained how evolution could have happened, in terms of processes known to take place today. In this book John Maynard Smith describes how their theory has been confirmed, but at the same time transformed, by recent research, and in particular by the discovery of the laws of inheritance.
In this book, which has its origin in a series of radio broadcasts, Paul Davies interviews eight physicists involved in debating and testing quantum theory, with radically different views of its significance.
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