Science Friction: Where the Known Meets the UnknownMacmillan, 1 апр. 2010 г. - Всего страниц: 336 Bestselling author Michael Shermer delves into the unknown, from heretical ideas about the boundaries of the universe to Star Trek's lessons about chance and time |
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... past 30 years , and in that time I have " pre- dicted " the future so many times in my work my colleagues have actually taken to referring to it as " the Byrne Curse . " It began in the late 1970s . While working on a Spider - Man ...
... past couple of decades , the facts never speak just for themselves . Science is a very human enterprise . Nevertheless , like democracy , it is the best system we have so we should use it to its fullest extent and apply it wherever we ...
... past . I have been thinking about how to apply chaos and complexity theory to human his- tory since those sciences came on the scene in the late 1980s , while I was earning my doctorate in history . I have always been interested in the ...
... past . It is great fun to ponder how the history of the United States might have unfolded after 1863 had General McClellan not received ahead of time General Lee's plans for the invasion of the North . Lee most likely would have been ...
... past , and when the millennium came and endless commen- taries were published to venerate ( or scorn ) those of the past thousand years , I revised the piece yet again . Through this survey of attempts to rank the people and events most ...
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Index | 285 |
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Back Cover | 300 |