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Can I read Dr Faustus of Modern Physics on EtoBox?
Dr Faustus of Modern Physics by Claes Johnson is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Dr Faustus of Modern Physics about?
Theoretical science cannot tolerate paradoxes or contradictions, becausein a contradictory theory everything is both true and false at the same time,and thus a paradox presented by some critics of a theory must be handledone way or the other by the proponents of the theory. A paradox can bedeconstructed by showing that it is only an apparent paradox, not a realparadox, which is the only scientifically acceptable solution.If this turns out to be impossible, a second defense line may be to simplydeny the existence of the paradox, another to claim that even if the paradoxappears to be a real contradiction, such as the contradicting wave and particlepictures of quantum mechanics, it can be accomodated as wave-particle duality or wave-particle complementarity as a form of augmented reality withoutcontradiction.I shall present evidence in the form of a little tribunal that modern physicsnever really resolved the paradoxes of classical physics from which it wasborn, and that this failure has developed into a trauma of modern physicswith negative consequences in fact for all of science ultimately based onphysics.
Who reads Dr Faustus of Modern Physics?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Claes Johnson
- Language
- EN
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Science, Physics, Theory Of Relativity And Gravitation