La trama della realtà

In 1619, Johannes Kepler, a theoretical astronomer who earned the greater part of his income from casting horoscopes, published the Harmonices Mundi , the "Harmony of the World". It contained a statement of the Third Law, relating the period of a planet's rotation around the sun to the radius of its Leggi tutto

What do we see when we look at things we imagine are real? How real is reality? And what is it made of? What would a frog (who seems to have particularly light-sensitive eyes) see when confronted with a light source that is placed far enough that light is getting sent to it in quants (as opposed to st Leggi tutto

I've been blowing through books lately, and it may be because I am at present too summer-shallow and absorbed by theater books to give works like this the necessary patience. So thank all the Neil Simon currently burning up space on my night table, and take this review for what it's worth. I went int Leggi tutto

I would suggest that my other self, Gary Beauregard Bottomley, in a parallel universe should not waste his time reading this book. It is deceptively misleading. Explanation is not the foundation for reality as the author tries to show. Explanation does not make the transcendental deduction real. Sam Leggi tutto

This is a weird book to review. There were pages where I was vociferously arguing with a (imaginary) Mr Deutsch, and pages where I was nodding along like in a class room. So a good book in all, perhaps even a great one. Deutsch is at his best when explaining Quantum Theory, and surprisingly good whe Leggi tutto

The nicest thing I can say about this book is that Deutsch offers his own "novel" opinions philosophy of science. Unfortunately he's reached those opinions by collecting logical fallacies like a hoarder collects old newspapers. He's basically a crank, having worked largely in isolation for decades,

This is David Deutsch's plea to the scientific world to tear down the separation between theory and their own worldviews and truly own the picture of reality that modern physics has painted for us. He begs that we take our theories seriously as fundamental paradigms and not set them aside as interes Leggi tutto