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1 Helge Kragh Higher Speculations: Grand Theories and Failed Revolutions in Physics and Cosmology 024082 2011 Book  
2 C.W. Kilmister Eddington's search for a fundamental theory: A key to the universe 012892 1994 Book  
3 Francis David Peat Superstrings and the search for the theory of everything 006378 1988 Book  
4 Kitty Ferguson Stephen Hawking: Quest for a theory of everything: The story of his life and work 006138 1991 Book  
5 John D. Barrow Theories of everything: The quest for ultimate explanation 005415 1991 Book  
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TitleHigher Speculations: Grand Theories and Failed Revolutions in Physics and Cosmology
Author(s)Helge Kragh
PublicationNew York, Oxford University Press, 2011.
Description411p.
Abstract NoteThroughout history, people have tried to construct 'theories of everything': highly ambitious attempts to understand nature in its totality. This account presents these theories in their historical contexts, from little known hypotheses from the past to modern developments such as the theory of superstrings, the anthropic principle and ideas of many universes, and uses them to problematize the limits of scientific knowledge. Do claims to theories of everything belong to science at all? Which are the epistemic standards on which an alleged scientific theory of the universe - or the multiverse - is to be judged? Such questions are currently being discussed by physicists and cosmologists, but rarely within a historical perspective. This book argues that these questions have a history and that knowledge of the historical development of 'higher speculations' may inform and qualify the current debate of the nature and limits of scientific explanation.
ISBN,Price9780199599882 : UKP 35.00(HB)
Classification524.8:113
Keyword(s)1. ANTHROPIC PRINCIPLE 2. THEORY OF EVERYTHING 3. THEORY OF SUPERSTRINGS
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TitleEddington's search for a fundamental theory: A key to the universe
Author(s)C.W. Kilmister
PublicationCambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1994.
ISBN,Price0-521-37165-1
Classification530.1
Keyword(s)1. BIOGRAPHY: A.S. EDDINGTON 2. FUNDAMENTAL THEORY 3. HISTORY OF SCIENCE 4. THEORETICAL PHYSICS 5. THEORY OF EVERYTHING
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TitleSuperstrings and the search for the theory of everything
Author(s)Francis David Peat
PublicationLondon, Scribners, 1988.
Description355pp.
Classification530.1:539.12
Keyword(s)1. ELEMENTARY PARTICLES 2. SUPERSTRINGS 3. THEORY OF EVERYTHING
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TitleStephen Hawking: Quest for a theory of everything: The story of his life and work
Author(s)Kitty Ferguson
PublicationToronto, Bantam Books, 1991.
Description192pp.;Bib. pp. 179-183
Classification92:53HAWKING
Keyword(s)1. BIOGRAPHY-PHYSICISTS 2. THEORY OF EVERYTHING 3. TOE
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TitleTheories of everything: The quest for ultimate explanation
Author(s)John D. Barrow
PublicationOxford, Clarendon press, 1991.
Descriptionxi,256pp;Bib. pp. 211-217
Classification524.8:113
Keyword(s)1. COSMOLOGY 2. PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE 3. PHYSICS - PHILOSOPHY 4. THEORY OF EVERYTHING 5. TOE
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