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| ISBN: -13978-1-59403-207-3 |
| Author: James Franklin |
| Title: What Science Knows |
| Publisher: Encounter Books |
| Month Used: Jan |
This book is the textbook. I will try to cover what I think are the important parts of it
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| ISBN: LibCongress67-14527 |
| Author: Richard Feynman |
| Title: The Character of Physical Law |
| Publisher: M.I.T. Press
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| Month Used: Jan |
This short book is a series of lectures for non-scientists. Richard Feynman won the Nobel Prize for his work in the theory of elementary particles.
In these lectures he describes what he thinks is the methodology of science. It was written before most the the phenomenology of particle
physics was discovered. It might be interesting to think about whether discoveries since the writing of this book would have changed
Feynman's ideas about science.
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| ISBN: 978-0-307-27812-8 |
| Author: Brian Greene |
| Title: The Hidden reality |
| Publisher: Vintager Books |
| Month Used: Feb |
This book describes some of the more amazing ideas in modern particle physics and cosmology. We should discuss whether the science described in this book is really
hat we have always defined as science.