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Impossibility - The Limits of Science and the Science of Limits by John D. Barrow [John D. Barrow] is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
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John Barrow is increasingly recognized as one of our most elegant and accomplished science writers, a brilliant commentator on cosmology, mathematics, and modern physics. Barrow now tackles the heady topic of impossibility, in perhaps his strongest book yet. Writing with grace and insight, Barrow argues convincingly that there are limits to human discovery, that there are things that are ultimately unknowable, undoable, or unreachable. He first examines the limits on scientific inquiry imposed by the deficiencies of the human mind: our brainevolved to meet the demands of our immediate environment, Barrow notes, and much that lies outside this small circle may also lie outside our understanding. Barrow investigates practical impossibilities, such as those imposed by complexity, uncomputability, or the finiteness of time, space, andresources. Is the universe finite or infinite? Can information be transmitted faster than the speed of light? The book also examines the deeper theoretical restrictions on our ability to know, including Godel's theorem--which proved that there were things that could not be proved--and Arrow'sImpossibility theorem about democratic voting systems. Finally, h
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- Author
- John D. Barrow [John D. Barrow]
- Publisher
- IRL Press at Oxford University Press
- Published
- 2000
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780198503781
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Philosophy, Science, Anthropology
- Rating
- 3.96 / 5 (192 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14