Weinberg, Steven, 1933-
Lake views : this world and the universe / Steven Weinberg. - Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2009. - x, 259 p. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Waiting for a final theory -- Can science explain everything? Anything? -- Peace at last in the science wars -- The future of science, and the universe -- Dark energy -- How great equations survive -- On missile defense -- The growing nuclear danger -- Is the universe a computer? -- Foreword to A century of nature -- Ambling toward apocalypse -- What price glory? -- Four golden lessons -- The wrong stuff -- A turning point? -- About Oppenheimer -- Einstein's search for unification -- Einstein's mistakes -- Living in the multiverse -- Against the boycott -- A deadly certitude -- To the postdocs -- Science or spacemen -- Israel and the liberals -- Without God.
9780674035157 (alk. paper) 0674035151 (alk. paper)
2009017607
GBA996744 bnb
015385304 Uk
Science.
Q171 / .W4194 2009
500
Lake views : this world and the universe / Steven Weinberg. - Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2009. - x, 259 p. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Waiting for a final theory -- Can science explain everything? Anything? -- Peace at last in the science wars -- The future of science, and the universe -- Dark energy -- How great equations survive -- On missile defense -- The growing nuclear danger -- Is the universe a computer? -- Foreword to A century of nature -- Ambling toward apocalypse -- What price glory? -- Four golden lessons -- The wrong stuff -- A turning point? -- About Oppenheimer -- Einstein's search for unification -- Einstein's mistakes -- Living in the multiverse -- Against the boycott -- A deadly certitude -- To the postdocs -- Science or spacemen -- Israel and the liberals -- Without God.
9780674035157 (alk. paper) 0674035151 (alk. paper)
2009017607
GBA996744 bnb
015385304 Uk
Science.
Q171 / .W4194 2009
500