Masks of the UniverseMacmillan Publishing Company, 1985 - 306 Seiten From the animistic world of the primitives of Newton's well-oiled clockwork to the warp and weave of Einsteinian spacetime, Harrison shows how every universe has been the ultimate universe--until a better one came along. Harrison also tours our latest version of the universe, deftly charting the strange, tiny cosmos of subatomic particles and the vast, limitless ocean of stars and galaxies. Throughout, the author enlivens his discussions with the words and thoughts of a dazzling array of renowned scientists, poets, and philosophers both past and present. He includes a number of carefully chosen illustrations--from an engraving of Dante's conception of the universe to a simple space-and-time diagram. ISBN 0-02-948780-3: $18.95. |
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... never know why reality is necessarily the way it is and can only know how things actually work ; all else is for ... never in- ductively from observations , that they were theorists like Socrates , never experimenters and observers ...
... never know why reality is necessarily the way it is and can only know how things actually work ; all else is for ... never in- ductively from observations , that they were theorists like Socrates , never experimenters and observers ...
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... never saw a moor , I never saw the sea ; Yet I know how the heather looks , And what a wave must be . We have never seen gravity waves , yet know what they must be , and we have little doubt they exist . Curved space is suffused with ...
... never saw a moor , I never saw the sea ; Yet I know how the heather looks , And what a wave must be . We have never seen gravity waves , yet know what they must be , and we have little doubt they exist . Curved space is suffused with ...
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... never , never doubt What nobody is sure about ! I forgot to remind you at the beginning that this journey occurs in the imagination , and consequently we see only what is known or thought to be known . Our timeship is really a dreamship ...
... never , never doubt What nobody is sure about ! I forgot to remind you at the beginning that this journey occurs in the imagination , and consequently we see only what is known or thought to be known . Our timeship is really a dreamship ...
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INTRODUCING THE MASKS | 1 |
WORLDS IN THE MAKING | 15 |
THE HEART DIVINE | 119 |
Urheberrecht | |
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