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" The end of physics : "
David Lindley.
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BL
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629061
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Lindley, David,1956-
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The end of physics : : the myth of a unified theory /\ David Lindley.
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New York :: BasicBooks,, c1993.
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275 p. ;; 25 cm.
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0465015484
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: 9780465015481
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: 0465019765
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: 9780465019762
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [257]-263) and index.
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| Contents
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Prologue: The Lure of Numbers -- I. The Microworld. 1. Lord Kelvin's Declaration. 2. Beyond Common Sense. 3. The Last Contradiction. 4. Botany -- II. The Macroworld. 5. The Expanding Universe. 6. Grand Ideas. 7. Dark Secrets -- III. The Whole World. 8. March of the Superlatives. 9. The New Heat Death.
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History of the attempts to find a "theory of everything" that also argues that such a theory will never be found.
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Grand unified theories (Nuclear physics)
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Physics-- Philosophy.
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QC794.6.G7L55 1993
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