Paul Davies

God and the New Physics

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Explains how the far-reaching discoveries of physics are revolutionizing our world and, in particular, throwing light on many of the questions formerly posed by religion, such as: Why is there a universe? Where did we come from? What is life? How is the world organized?

Produktdetails

• Penguin Science
• Verlag: Penguin Books UK
• Repr.
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Oktober 1990
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 197mm x 129mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 204g
• ISBN-13: 9780140134629
• ISBN-10: 014013462X
• Artikelnr.: 09682893

Autorenporträt

Paul Davies

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
Acknowledgements
Preface
1 Science and religion in a changing world
2 Genesis
3 Did God create the universe?
4 Why is there a universe?
5 What is life? Holism vs reductionism
6 Mind and soul
7 The self
8 The quantum factor
9 Time
10 Freewill and determinism
11 The fundamental structure of matter
12 Accident or design?
13 Black holes and cosmic chaos
14 Miracles
15 The end of the universe
16 Is the universe a 'free lunch'?
17 The physicist's conception of nature
Footnotes
Select Bibliography
Index