Cosmology, Physics and Philosophy

Benjamin Gal-or (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

537 Seiten

1983 | 1st Corrected ed. 1983. Corr. 2nd printing 1983
Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
978-0-387-90581-5 (ISBN)

Infos

by Sir Karl Popper This is a great book, and an exciting book. I say so even though I happen to dis- agree with the author in many minor points and one or two major points. Some of the minor points are merely terminological, and therefore very minor. I dislike the term 'dialectic', because of its use since Hegel and Marx; and I dislike the term 'gravitism', perhaps without a good reason. Thus I dislike the name which Professor Gal-Or has given to his theory. But the theory seems to me a great and a very beauti- ful theory, so far as I can judge. Other minor points of disagreement are connected with Gal-Or's original and remarkable views of the great philosophers, including Spinoza and Kant. A major point of disagreement is that Gal-Or, following Einstein, is a scientific determinist, while I cannot but regard determinism as a modem super- stition. Of course, he may be right and I may be completely mistaken. I mention these critical points rather in order to emphasize how strongly I am impressed by Professor Gal-Or's great book.
Even in the very unlikely case that, wherever we disagree, he should be in the wrong and I right, even if that should be the case (which is improbable in the extreme), it would remain a great book: readable, worth reading and enlightening; with a most fascinating cosmological story of time, expansion, and gravitation.

Inhalt

Cosmology, Physics and Philosophy.- Preliminary Concepts.- From Terrestrial Gravitational Structures to Black Holes and Neutrinos in Astrophysics.- From "Conservation" in Classical Physics to Solitons in Particle Physics.- From General Relativity and Relativistic Cosmology to Gauge Theories.- From Physics to Philosophical Crossroads and Back.- The Arrows of Time.- The Crisis in Quantum Physics.- From Physics to Cosmological Crossroads and Back.- Cosmology, Physics and Philosophy.- Cosmological Origin of Time and Evolution.- Black Holes and the Unification of Asymmetries.- Beyond Present Knowledge.- Havayism - The Science of the Whole.- Critique of Western Thought.- A Few Historical Remarks on Time, Mind, and Symmetry.- The Philosophy of Time & Change: Some Historical Notions.- Structuralism and the Divided American Thought: A Short Glossary of Terms.- Policy and Publicity: A Critique.- Thought-Provoking and Thought-Depressing Quotations.- Critique of Western Methodology.

Produkt-Details

• Zusatzinfo: 86 black & white illustrations, biography
• Verlagsort: New York, NY
• Sprache: englisch
• Gewicht: 1150 g
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie
• Themenwelt: Mathematik / Informatik ► Mathematik
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• ISBN-10: 0-387-90581-2 / 0387905812
• ISBN-13: 978-0-387-90581-5 / 9780387905815
• Zustand: Neuware