- Physics, philosophy, Quantum theory, Cosmology, String models
What can fashionable ideas, blind faith, or pure fantasy possibly have to do with the scientific quest to understand the universe? Surely, theoretical physicists are immune to mere trends, dogmatic beliefs, or flights of fancy?
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- cooloverwhelming
- sparerichly built
- contemplativerelentless
- classical in formformally daring
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- Author
- Roger Penrose
- First published
- 2016
- Pages
- 520
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Editions
- 3
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780691178530
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“As mentioned in the preface, the issues discussed in this book were developed from three lectures given, by invitation of the Princeton University Press, at Princeton University in October 2003.”
Sir Roger Penrose OM FRS is a British mathematical physicist, mathematician, philosopher of science and Nobel Laureate in Physics. He is Emeritus Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics in the University of Oxford and Emeritus Fellow of Wadham College, Oxford. Penrose has made contributions to the mathematical physics of general relativity and cosmology. He has received several prizes and awards, including the 1988 Wolf Prize for physics, which he shared with Stephen Hawking for the Penrose–Hawking singularity theorems. **Source**: [Roger Penrose](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Penrose) on Wikipedia.
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