Fashion, Faith and Fantasy in the New Physics of the Universe

What use do fashionable ideas, blind faith, or fantasy have in the scientific quest to understand the universe? Roger Penrose argues that researchers working at the extreme frontiers of physics, like everyone else, can be swayed by trendy trends, dogmatic beliefs and fanciful things. In this provocative book, Penrose discusses how fashion, belief, and fantasy seduce today's researchers in string theory, quantum mechanics, and cosmology, even ironically describing how they shape their work. He warns that the trendy nature of a theory can cloud our assessment of its credibility, and even argues that a more natural reality may lie behind current fantastical ideas about the origins of the universe.

“Physics had reached a difficult impasse in the last century. The two theories of quantum mechanics and general relativity were believed to be largely correct. But they contradict each other in fundamental ways; Both cannot be completely correct. Roger Penrose, a leading physicist, addresses this problem in his book Fashion, Faith and Fantasy in the New Physics of the Universe. "Penrose, who is as intellectually extraordinary as he is respectable, here ventures to seek some new ways in which these two theories might be reconciled."

– Wall StreetJournal

“An excellently produced, superbly plotted and diagrammed book. If contemporary physical theory interests you, you certainly won't want to ignore this book.”

– Math Frolic

(From the Promotional Bulletin)

Dough Type: 2nd Dough

Number of Pages: 660

Size: 13.5 x 21

First Print Year: 2020

Number of Printings: 1st Edition

Language Turkish