Böcker av Helge S. Kragh

The 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded for the discovery of cosmic acceleration due to dark energy, a discovery that is all the more perplexing as nobody knows what dark energy actually is.

Considers the cultural and religious responses to the second law of thermodynamics, from around 1860 to 1920. This book focuses on key themes on the interactions between cosmology, physics, religion and ideology, and the public way in which these topics were discussed in the latter half of the 19th and the first years of the 20th century.