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03531aam a2200385 i 4500 001 582E97F0527411EC8E4D38A14AECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20211201010015 008 200411s2020 nyua b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2019058683 020 $a 019009835X 020 $a 9780190098353 040 $a LBSOR/DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d ERASA $d UKMGB $d LHL $d CHVBK $d OCLCO $d TFW $d YDX $d OCLCO $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a QC6 $b .N52 2020 082 00 $a 530.01 $2 23 100 1 $a Nicolaides, Demetris, $e author. 245 10 $a In search of a theory of everything : $b the philosophy behind physics / $c Demetris Nicolaides. 264 1 $a New York, NY : $b Oxford University Press, $c [2020] 300 $a xii, 173 pages : $b illustrations (black and white) ; $c 25 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Philosophy and physics -- Close encounter of the philosophical kind -- The quest for a theory of everything -- Cosmic justice -- The stepping-stone to truth -- Numbers and shapes -- The changing universe -- The unchanging universe -- Paradoxes of nature -- The chemistry of love and strife -- In everything is everything -- Atoms of matter and energy -- Atoms of space and time -- It's fate-maybe -- Atomic connections. 520 $a "In Search of a Theory of Everything is an adventurous journey in space and time in search of a unified "theory of everything" (TOE) by means of a rare and agile interplay between the natural philosophies of influential ancient Greek thinkers and the laws of modern physics. For a TOE, all the phenomena of nature share a subtle underlying commonality and are explainable by a single overarching immutable principle. Reading the past for what it is, is of tremendous value, but so is its reading from the perspective of modern knowledge. Not to judge it for its flaws but to be inspired by its insights. This comparative study of the universe is the spirit of In Search of a Theory of Everything-to physics through philosophy, to the new via the old, and in a balanced way. A relatively "easier" analysis of nature, that of a major natural philosopher of antiquity, commences every chapter to fasten the bedrock for the more complex. The transition into the more complicated views of modern physics is gradual and systematic, entwining finely the two, the ancient with the new, the forgotten with the current, by unfolding a history and a philosophy of science, and connecting all the great feats of the mind and time. Those philosophers had ideas that resonate with aspects of modern science; puzzles that still baffle; and rationales that can be used to reassess completely anew fundamental but competing principles of modern physics, even to speculate about open physics problems. In Search of a Theory of Everything is a new kind of sight, is a philosophical insight of modern physics"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Physics $x Philosophy. 650 0 $a Physics $x History. 650 7 $a Physics. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01063025 650 7 $a Physics $x Philosophy. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01063079 650 7 $a Philosophie $2 gnd 600 07 $a Physik $2 gnd 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 776 08 $i Online version: $a Nicolaides, Demetris. $t In search of a theory of everything $d New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2020] $z 9780190098377 $w (DLC) 2019058684 941 $a 1 952 $l UQAX771 $d 20211201010448.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=582E97F0527411EC8E4D38A14AECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b JIDInitiate Another SILO Locator Search