This idea must die : scientific ideas that are blocking progress / edited by John Brockman.
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TextPublication details: New York, NY : Harper Perennial, 2015.Edition: First editionDescription: 568 p. ; 21 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
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- 9780062374349 (pbk.)
- 500 THI 23 007443
- Q173 .T54 2015
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Includes index.
The theory of everything / Geoffrey West
Unification / Marcelo Gleiser
Simplicity / A.C. Grayling
The universe / Seth Lloyd
IQ / Scott Atran
Brain plasticity / Leo M. Chalupa
Changing the brain / Howard Gardner
"The rocket scientist" / Victoria Wyatt
Indivi-duality / Nigel Goldenfeld
The bigger an animal's brain, the greater its intelligence / Nicholas Humphrey
The big bang was the first moment of time / Lee Smolin
The universe began in a state of extraordinarily low entropy / Alan Guth
Entropy / Bruce Parker
The uniformity and uniqueness of the universe / Andrei Linde
Infinity / Max Tegmark
The laws of physics are predetermined / Lawrence M. Krauss
Theories of anything / Paul Steinhardt
M-theory/string theory is the only game in town / Eric R. Weinstein
String theory / Frank Tipler
Our world has only three space dimensions / Gordon Kane
The "naturalness" argument / Peter Woit
The collapse of the wave function / Freeman Dyson
Quantum jumps / David Deutsch
Cause and effect / W. Daniel Hillis
Race / Nina Jablonski
Essentialism / Richard Dawkins
Human nature/ Peter Richerson
The Urvogel / Julia Clarke
Numbering nature / Kurt Gray
Hardwired=permanent / Michael Shermer
The atheism prerequisite / Douglas Rushkoff
Evolution is "true" / Roger Highfield
There is no reality in the quantum world / Anton Zeilinger
Spacetime / Steve Giddings
The universe / Amanda Gefter.
The bestselling editor of 'This explains everything' brings together 175 of the world's most brilliant minds to tackle Edge.org's 2014 question: What scientific idea has become a relic blocking human progress? Each year, John Brockman, publisher of Edge.org, challenges some of the world's greatest scientists, artists, and philosophers to answer a provocative question crucial to our time. In 2014 he asked 175 brilliant minds to ponder: What scientific idea needs to be put aside in order to make room for new ideas to advance? The answers are as surprising as they are illuminating.
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