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Obras por P. C. W. Davies

God and the New Physics (1983) 977 exemplares
How to Build a Time Machine (2002) 518 exemplares
Superstrings: A Theory of Everything? (1988) — Editor — 239 exemplares
The New Physics (1989) — Editor — 162 exemplares
The Demon in the Machine (2019) 157 exemplares
The Runaway Universe (1900) 81 exemplares
The Accidental Universe (1982) 67 exemplares
Forces of Nature (1979) 49 exemplares
Complexity and the Arrow of Time (2013) — Editor — 29 exemplares
Quantum Fields in Curved Space (1982) 27 exemplares
The Big Questions (1996) 22 exemplares
The physics of time asymmetry (1974) 21 exemplares
The Search for Gravity Waves (1980) 17 exemplares
Fireball (1987) 15 exemplares
The Locust Fields (2011) 1 exemplar
The mind of God 1 exemplar
Un silencio inquietante (2011) 1 exemplar

Associated Works

Six Easy Pieces: Essentials of Physics Explained by Its Most Brilliant Teacher (1963) — Introdução, algumas edições3,844 exemplares
The Character of Physical Law (1965) — Introdução, algumas edições1,561 exemplares
The Oxford Book of Modern Science Writing (2008) — Contribuidor — 803 exemplares
Six Easy Pieces and Six Not-So-Easy Pieces (1963) — Introdução, algumas edições394 exemplares
Misfits (2007) — Artista da capa, algumas edições76 exemplares
The Nature of Time (1986) — Contribuidor — 41 exemplares
Starship Century: Toward the Grandest Horizon (2013) — Posfácio — 35 exemplares
From Matter to Life: Information and Causality (2017) — Editor — 26 exemplares
Cosmos & Culture : Cultural Evolution in a Cosmic Context (2009) — Contribuidor — 25 exemplares
Randomness And Complexity, from Leibniz To Chaitin (2007) — Contribuidor — 12 exemplares
The Guardian science course : Part I : The universe — Contribuidor — 2 exemplares
New Scientist, 15 October 1988 (1988) — Contribuidor — 2 exemplares

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Paul Davies is a an excellent science writer, bringing fresh perspective to historical and new science but what makes this book particularly interesting is the insight we get from firsthand access to the research on the subject.

Biology is still a strange science, exceptions outweigh the rule when you try to make any statement, there is a lack of fundamental principles to follow and even being able to effect a measurement reliably is completely non trivial.

However this state is unlikely to remain like this forever and the direction of a new way to identify principles in biological sciences will include information as a metric and evolutionary “optionality”.

Paul Davies in this book brings something new evem to people that feel they know contemporary biological methods.

On the down side the book is less accessible than other texts by the author ans requires attentive reading.
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yates9 | 2 outras críticas | Feb 28, 2024 |
Advances in the field of science known as the new physics could bring within our grasp a unified description of all creation. This would demand a radical reformulation of the most fundamental aspects of reality and a way of thinking that is closer in accord with mysticism than materialism.
 
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PendleHillLibrary | 4 outras críticas | Nov 10, 2023 |
I admit, I'm a SETI supporter, even if only in spirit these days (my CPU's are doing Folding@home, now.) This is a great book that is simultaneously a highly accessible overview of the issues and details of SETI, an argument for doing SETI, and in the best tradition of SETI, an touches on many interesting questions (What is life? Technologically, and hence culturally, where might we go from here? Etc.)
 
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dcunning11235 | 20 outras críticas | Aug 12, 2023 |
I found this short book a delightful read. Davies gives us a brief overview of how current physics theory, in particular relativity and quantum mechanics, can allow the possibility for time travel, both to the future and, more surprisingly, to the past. He also briefly describes the kinds of paradoxes that can result from time travel to the past and how these paradoxes might be resolved. This brief introduction motivates me to seek more detailed treatments in the popularized science genre and the more technical physics research literature.… (mais)
 
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cdwentworth | 8 outras críticas | Jul 22, 2023 |

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Obras
54
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18
Membros
9,115
Popularidade
#2,638
Avaliação
3.8
Críticas
110
ISBN
347
Línguas
19
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