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Higher speculations: grand theories and failed revolutions in physics and cosmology

A historical account of highly ambitious attempts to understand all of nature in terms of fundamental physics. Presenting old and new 'theories of everything' in their historical contexts, the book discusses the nature and limits of scientific explanation in connection with concrete case s...

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Autor principal: Kragh, Helge
Lenguaje:eng
Publicado: Oxford Univ. Press 2011
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Acceso en línea:http://cds.cern.ch/record/1392999
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Higher speculations: grand theories and failed revolutions in physics and cosmology
title Higher speculations: grand theories and failed revolutions in physics and cosmology
title_full Higher speculations: grand theories and failed revolutions in physics and cosmology
title_fullStr Higher speculations: grand theories and failed revolutions in physics and cosmology
title_full_unstemmed Higher speculations: grand theories and failed revolutions in physics and cosmology
title_short Higher speculations: grand theories and failed revolutions in physics and cosmology
title_sort higher speculations: grand theories and failed revolutions in physics and cosmology
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