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In 'Impossibility', John D. Barrow - one of our most elegant and accomplished science writers - argues convincingly that there are limits to human discovery, that there are things that are ultimately unknowable, undoable, or unreachable. Barrow first examines the limits of the human mind: our brain evolved to meet the demands of our immediate environment, and much that lies outside this small circle may also lie outside our understanding. He investigates practical impossibilities, such as those imposed by complexity, uncomputability, or the finiteness of time, space, and resources. Is the universe finite or infinite? Can information be transmitted faster than the speed of light? The book also examines deeper theoretical restrictions on our ability to know, including Gödel's theorem, which proved that there were things that could not be proved.
Science --- Limit (Logic) --- Gödel's theorem. --- Gèodel's theorem --- Sciences - General --- Physical Sciences & Mathematics --- Normal science --- Philosophy of science --- Logic --- Gödel's incompleteness theorem --- Undecidable theories --- Arithmetic --- Completeness theorem --- Incompleteness theorems --- Logic, Symbolic and mathematical --- Number theory --- Decidability (Mathematical logic) --- Philosophy. --- Philosophy --- Foundations --- Go ̈del's theorem. --- Limit (Logic). --- Science. --- Science - Philosophy --- Godel's theorem --- Gödel's theorem.
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The author presents and explains the latest theories, predictions and controversies surrounding the ultimate explanation, from superstrings and multiverses to speculations about the world as a computer, and the implications of these theories for own existence.
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This highly interdisciplinary 2007 book highlights many of the ways in which chemistry plays a crucial role in making life an evolutionary possibility in the universe. Cosmologists and particle physicists have often explored how the observed laws and constants of nature lie within a narrow range that allows complexity and life to evolve and adapt. Here, these anthropic considerations are diversified in a host of new ways to identify the most sensitive features of biochemistry and astrobiology. Celebrating the classic 1913 work of Lawrence J. Henderson, The Fitness of the Environment for Life, this book looks at the delicate balance between chemistry and the ambient conditions in the universe that permit complex chemical networks and structures to exist. It will appeal to a broad range of scientists, academics, and others interested in the origin and existence of life in our universe.
Evolution. Phylogeny --- General biochemistry --- Exobiology. --- Biochemistry. --- Biological chemistry --- Chemical composition of organisms --- Organisms --- Physiological chemistry --- Biology --- Chemistry --- Medical sciences --- Astrobiology --- Habitable planets --- Life --- Composition --- Origin
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