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In this provocative book, he argues that fashion, faith, and fantasy, while sometimes productive and even essential in physics, may be leading today's researchers astray in three of the field's most important areas—string theory, quantum mechanics, and cosmology.
13 set 2016 · Overview. Contents. About this book. Nobel Prize–winning physicist Roger Penrose questions some of the most fashionable ideas in physics today, including string theory. What can fashionable ideas, blind faith, or pure fantasy possibly have to do with the scientific quest to understand the universe?
- Roger Penrose
- September 13, 2016
- 2016
In the case of quantum mechanics, its stunning success in explaining the atomic universe has led to an uncritical faith that it must also apply to reasonably massive objects, and Penrose responds by suggesting possible changes in quantum theory.
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Content. The first three Chapters discussed three important theories with the feature of fashion, faith and fantasy, respectively. They are the string theory (fashion), quantum mechanics (faith) and the current cosmology theory (fantasy). From Chapter 4, Penrose introduced his own theory, including the controversial Conformal Cyclic ...
18 ago 2017 · Fashion, Faith, and Fantasy in the New Physics of the Universe. By Roger Penrose. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2016. 520 pages. US $29.95 (Hardcover). - Sánchez‐Cañizares - 2017 - Zygon® - Wiley Online Library. Reviews. Fashion, Faith, and Fantasy in the New Physics of the Universe. By Roger Penrose.
