![]() Anyone capable of bridging the concerns of the human world and the baffling complexities of physics has earned the right to be indulged a little. Download for offline reading, highlight, bookmark or take notes while you read Existential Physics: A Scientists Guide to Lifes Biggest Questions. Read this book using Google Play Books app on your PC, android, iOS devices. Science Magazine Hossenfelder is a rare gem. Existential Physics: A Scientists Guide to Lifes Biggest Questions - Ebook written by Sabine Hossenfelder. encourage s readers to push past well-trod assumptions and have fun doing so. ![]() Hossenfelder is sometimes a little too opinionated, the reader will quickly forgive her. Existential Physics: A Scientist's Guide to Life's Biggest Questions Penguin Publishing Group, 2022 Sabine Hossenfelder Stimulating. an informed and entertaining guide to what science can and cannot tell us. Hossenfelder breaks up her text with four interviews with physicists to provide 'other voices.' Their main effect is to confirm stereotypes of eccentricity. Hossenfelder doesn’t apply the distinction between unscientific and ascientific consistently, sometimes giving both labels to the same idea. The most surprising and interesting feature of the book is the claim that many of her physicist peers are as guilty of bringing speculation and belief into their scientific thinking as theologians and New Age mystics. She is less persuasive when she encroaches on philosophical territory, brusquely brushing aside the possibility of free will. ![]() ![]() Hossenfelder can mostly avoid straying beyond science because the questions she addresses are more metaphysical than existential. ![]()
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