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Many scientists make extravagant claims as to the scope and power of scientific thinking, claiming that ultimately it will provide a complete understanding of everything. But Russell Stannard, himself an eminent high-energy physicist, strongly disagrees with this grandiose claim. Indeed, in
The End of Discovery, Stannard argues that eventually--perhaps in a few decades, perhaps in a few centuries--fundamental science will reach the limit of what it can explain. On that day, the scientific age, like the stone age and the iron age before it, will come to an end.
To highlight the boundaries of scientific understanding, Stannard takes readers on an engaging tour of some of the deepest questions facing science today--questions to do with consciousness, free will, the nature of space, time, and matter, the existence of extraterrestrial life, and much
more. For instance, from his own research field, he points out that to understand the subatomic world, scientists depend of particle accelerators, but to understand the very smallest units of nature, it has been calculated that we would need an accelerator the size of a galaxy. Clearly, unless a new
approach comes along, we might never understand fully the most basic building blocks of the universe.
As a scientist, Stannard remains hopeful that several of the questions addressed will one day be answered. But other puzzles will remain for all time--and we may never even realize it when we have hit an insuperable barrier in those directions.
He assures us that there will always be new uses of scientific knowledge. Technology will continue. But fundamental science itself--the making of fresh discoveries as to how the world works--must ultimately grind to a halt.

About the Author:
Russell Stannard is Emeritus Professor of Physics at the Open University where he headed the Department of Physics and Astronomy. A high energy nuclear physicist, he has carried out research at CERN in Geneva, has been awarded an OBE, and received the Bragg Medal from the Institute of Physics. He is
also the author of a bestselling trilogy of children's books on science and Relativity: A Very Short Introduction.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780199585243
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
  • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press, USA
  • Depth: 19
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Spine Width: 25 mm
  • Weight: 453 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0199585245
  • Publisher Date: 07 Oct 2010
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Height: 227 mm
  • No of Pages: 240
  • Series Title: English
  • Sub Title: Are We Approaching the Boundaries of the Knowable?
  • Width: 149 mm


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