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Obras de Paul Davies

Foram atribuídas obras ao autor também conhecido como P. C. W. Davies.

God and the New Physics (1983) 977 cópias
O Enigma do Tempo (1995) 816 cópias
How to Build a Time Machine (2002) 518 cópias
The New Physics (1989) — Editor — 162 cópias

Associated Works

Foram atribuídas obras ao autor também conhecido como P. C. W. Davies.

Six Easy Pieces: Essentials of Physics Explained by Its Most Brilliant Teacher (1963) — Introdução, algumas edições3,844 cópias
The Character of Physical Law (1965) — Introdução, algumas edições1,560 cópias
The Oxford Book of Modern Science Writing (2008) — Contribuinte — 803 cópias
Six Easy Pieces and Six Not-So-Easy Pieces (1963) — Introdução, algumas edições394 cópias
Misfits (2007) — Artista da capa, algumas edições76 cópias
The Nature of Time (1986) — Contribuinte — 41 cópias
Starship Century: Toward the Grandest Horizon (2013) — Posfácio — 35 cópias

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Conhecimento Comum

Nome padrão
Davies, Paul
Nome de batismo
Davies, Paul Charles William
Outros nomes
DAVIES, Paul Charles William
DAVIES, Paul
Data de nascimento
1946-04-22
Sexo
male
Nacionalidade
UK
Local de nascimento
London, England, UK
Educação
Woodhouse Grammar School
University College London (BSc|Physics)
University College London (PhD|Physics)
University of Cambridge (postdoctorate)
Ocupação
physicist
author
Organizações
Arizona State University
University of Cambridge
University of London
University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne
University of Adelaide
Macquarie University (mostrar todas 7)
International Academy of Astronautics
Premiações
Templeton Prize (1995)
Kelvin Medal (2001)
Faraday Prize (2002)
Advance Australia Award
Order of Australia (2007)
Pequena biografia
Paul C. W. DAvies is a professor of natural philosophy in the Australian Centre for Astrobiology at Macquarie University, Sydney. His research spans the fields of cosmology, gravitation, and quantum field theory, with particular emphasis on black holes, the origin of the universe, and the origin of life. [from What We Believe But Cannot Prove (2006)]

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Paul Davies is a an excellent science writer, bringing fresh perspective to historical and new science but what makes this book particularly interesting is the insight we get from firsthand access to the research on the subject.

Biology is still a strange science, exceptions outweigh the rule when you try to make any statement, there is a lack of fundamental principles to follow and even being able to effect a measurement reliably is completely non trivial.

However this state is unlikely to remain like this forever and the direction of a new way to identify principles in biological sciences will include information as a metric and evolutionary “optionality”.

Paul Davies in this book brings something new evem to people that feel they know contemporary biological methods.

On the down side the book is less accessible than other texts by the author ans requires attentive reading.
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yates9 | outras 2 resenhas | Feb 28, 2024 |
Advances in the field of science known as the new physics could bring within our grasp a unified description of all creation. This would demand a radical reformulation of the most fundamental aspects of reality and a way of thinking that is closer in accord with mysticism than materialism.
 
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PendleHillLibrary | outras 4 resenhas | Nov 10, 2023 |
I admit, I'm a SETI supporter, even if only in spirit these days (my CPU's are doing Folding@home, now.) This is a great book that is simultaneously a highly accessible overview of the issues and details of SETI, an argument for doing SETI, and in the best tradition of SETI, an touches on many interesting questions (What is life? Technologically, and hence culturally, where might we go from here? Etc.)
 
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dcunning11235 | outras 20 resenhas | Aug 12, 2023 |
I found this short book a delightful read. Davies gives us a brief overview of how current physics theory, in particular relativity and quantum mechanics, can allow the possibility for time travel, both to the future and, more surprisingly, to the past. He also briefly describes the kinds of paradoxes that can result from time travel to the past and how these paradoxes might be resolved. This brief introduction motivates me to seek more detailed treatments in the popularized science genre and the more technical physics research literature.… (mais)
 
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cdwentworth | outras 8 resenhas | Jul 22, 2023 |

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29
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Membros
8,237
Popularidade
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Avaliação
3.9
Resenhas
97
ISBNs
403
Idiomas
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Favorito
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