Overview of This Explains Everything: Deep, Beautiful and Elegant Theories of How the World Works (Edge Question Series) Book

Drawn from the cutting-edge frontiers of science, This Explains Everything presents 150 of the most deep, surprising and brilliant explanations of how the world works, with contributions by Jared Diamond, Richard Dawkins, Nassim Taleb, Brian Eno, Steven Pinker and moreWhat is your favorite deep, elegant, or beautiful explanation?This is the question John Brockman, publisher of Edge. org ("The world's smartest website" The Guardian), posed to 150 of the world brightest and most influential minds. Scientists' greatest pleasure comes from theories that derive the solution to some deep puzzle from a small set of simple principles in a surprising way. These explanations are called "beautiful" or "elegant". Historical examples are Kepler's explanation of complex planetary motions as simple ellipses, Bohr's explanation of the periodic table of the elements in terms of electron shells and Watson and Crick's double helix. Einstein famously said that he did not need experimental confirmation of his general theory of relativity because it "was so beautiful it had to be true. "Contributors include:Jared Diamond on biological electricity; Nassim Nicholas Taleb on positive stress; Steven Pinker on the deep genetic roots of human conflict; Richard Dawkins on pattern recognition; Nobel Prize winning physicist Frank Wilczek on simplicity; plus entries from music producer Brian Eno, Nudge author Richard Thaler, Phantoms in the Brain author V. S. Ramachandran, Flow author Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi; a Universe from Nothing author Lawrence Krauss, Martin Rees, Kevin Kelly, Clay Shirky, Daniel C. Dennett and more.

• Book Type :

Medicine & Health Sciences

Book Binding :

Paperback

Language :

English

Number of Pages :

432 pages

ISBN - 10 :

0062230174

This Explains Everything: Deep, Beautiful and Elegant Theories of How the World Works (Edge Question Series) Published On :

31 Oct 2016

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