On the Possibility of Infinity Machines
Author | : Michael Benedict Burke |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 282 |
Release | : 1976 |
Genre | : Infinite |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Michael Benedict Burke |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 282 |
Release | : 1976 |
Genre | : Infinite |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Graham Oppy |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 285 |
Release | : 2006-04-03 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1139455117 |
This book is an exploration of philosophical questions about infinity. Graham Oppy examines how the infinite lurks everywhere, both in science and in our ordinary thoughts about the world. He also analyses the many puzzles and paradoxes that follow in the train of the infinite. Even simple notions, such as counting, adding and maximising present serious difficulties. Other topics examined include the nature of space and time, infinities in physical science, infinities in theories of probability and decision, the nature of part/whole relations, mathematical theories of the infinite, and infinite regression and principles of sufficient reason.
Author | : David Deutsch |
Publisher | : Penguin UK |
Total Pages | : 571 |
Release | : 2011-03-31 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0141969695 |
'Science has never had an advocate quite like David Deutsch ... A computational physicist on a par with his touchstones Alan Turing and Richard Feynman, and a philosopher in the line of his greatest hero, Karl Popper. His arguments are so clear that to read him is to experience the thrill of the highest level of discourse available on this planet and to understand it' Peter Forbes, Independent In our search for truth, how far have we advanced? This uniquely human quest for good explanations has driven amazing improvements in everything from scientific understanding and technology to politics, moral values and human welfare. But will progress end, either in catastrophe or completion - or will it continue infinitely? In this profound and seminal book, David Deutsch explores the furthest reaches of our current understanding, taking in the Infinity Hotel, supernovae and the nature of optimism, to instill in all of us a wonder at what we have achieved - and the fact that this is only the beginning of humanity's infinite possibility. 'This is Deutsch at his most ambitious, seeking to understand the implications of our scientific explanations of the world ... I enthusiastically recommend this rich, wide-ranging and elegantly written exposition of the unique insights of one of our most original intellectuals' Michael Berry, Times Higher Education Supplement 'Bold ... profound ... provocative and persuasive' Economist 'David Deutsch may well go down in history as one of the great scientists of our age' Scotsman
Author | : Paul J. Joseph |
Publisher | : Paul J. Joseph |
Total Pages | : 378 |
Release | : 2020-02-21 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1505805953 |
"Outstanding! Paul J. Joseph's insight is amazing. He knows his genre!" - Jonas Saul, author of the Sarah Roberts Series What if an advanced future-human stranded in our time started building a machine that shifted time? What if they had an interest in changing our history? Would we have a say? Can Sally Buds stop them? From the mind of Paul J. Joseph, author of The Turing Files, featuring Romo's Journey and The Railas Project. After spending a year on Baltan negotiating a new relationship with Earth, UN Space Commissioner Sally Bud’s associate commissioner arrives with an old problem. New Ontario, a planet Sally regrettably knows all too well, has Earth worried, again. A band of rebels with mysterious powers tied to a massive structure on the planet’s surface has usurped the cruel "masters'' who ruled the planet. Earth wants answers, and Sally is tapped to provide them. During her mission, she finds that the former slaves now have the aid of a mysterious benefactor who is using them to build a machine that bends time. Who is this benefactor and what does he want? The answer is more terrifying than the question and Sally must work to prevent a disaster that could have implications throughout all of history, human and alien. Can Sally Buds negotiate with a human alien that exists in multiple dimensions? Find out in this mind-bending story! Also, purchasing this book will entitle you to a free gift of Twisted Fire, a short story anthology! And, by joining my mailing list you get new free content regularly!
Author | : Michael Heller |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 327 |
Release | : 2011-02-07 |
Genre | : Mathematics |
ISBN | : 1139495569 |
This interdisciplinary study of infinity explores the concept through the prism of mathematics and then offers more expansive investigations in areas beyond mathematical boundaries to reflect the broader, deeper implications of infinity for human intellectual thought. More than a dozen world-renowned researchers in the fields of mathematics, physics, cosmology, philosophy and theology offer a rich intellectual exchange among various current viewpoints, rather than displaying a static picture of accepted views on infinity. The book starts with a historical examination of the transformation of infinity from a philosophical and theological study to one dominated by mathematics. It then offers technical discussions on the understanding of mathematical infinity. Following this, the book considers the perspectives of physics and cosmology: can infinity be found in the real universe? Finally, the book returns to questions of philosophical and theological aspects of infinity.
Author | : John E. Muller |
Publisher | : Gateway |
Total Pages | : 99 |
Release | : 2013-12-30 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1473204410 |
Science and technology seem to advance in wild leaps. Something tremendous is discovered, then there is a breathing space. War accelerates the process of discovery. Primitive man discovered the wheel, the lever, fire and language. After the Dark Ages there was a great upsurge of scientific discovery. Amazing new knowledge was added almost daily. Today progress is faster than ever. The Twentieth Century is the Age of the Machine. Men use machines. Tomorrow, machines may use men. Imagine a world where everything is dependent on automatic machinery. Imagine a world where men have forgotten how to service the machines that serve them. Imagine the chaos, the horror and the conflicts when the machines begin to fail. Are flesh and blood superior to metal and plastic?
Author | : Rudy Rucker |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2019-07-23 |
Genre | : Mathematics |
ISBN | : 0691191255 |
A dynamic exploration of infinity In Infinity and the Mind, Rudy Rucker leads an excursion to that stretch of the universe he calls the “Mindscape,” where he explores infinity in all its forms: potential and actual, mathematical and physical, theological and mundane. Using cartoons, puzzles, and quotations to enliven his text, Rucker acquaints us with staggeringly advanced levels of infinity, delves into the depths beneath daily awareness, and explains Kurt Gödel’s belief in the possibility of robot consciousness. In the realm of infinity, mathematics, science, and logic merge with the fantastic. By closely examining the paradoxes that arise, we gain profound insights into the human mind, its powers, and its limitations. This Princeton Science Library edition includes a new preface by the author.
Author | : Wesley C. Salmon |
Publisher | : Hackett Publishing |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 2001-01-01 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9780872205604 |
A reprint of the Bobbs-Merrill edition of 1970. These essays lead the reader through the land of the wonderful shrinking genie to the warehouse where the infinity machines are kept. By careful examination of a lamp that is switched on and off infinitely many times, or the workings of a machine that prints out an infinite decimal expansion of pi, we begin to understand how it is possible for Achilles to overtake the tortoise. The concepts that form the basis of modern science---space, time, motion, change, infinity---are examined and explored in this edition. Includes an updated bibliography.
Author | : John D. Barrow |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 293 |
Release | : 2007-12-18 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0307428761 |
For a thousand years, infinity has proven to be a difficult and illuminating challenge for mathematicians and theologians. It certainly is the strangest idea that humans have ever thought. Where did it come from and what is it telling us about our Universe? Can there actually be infinities? Is matter infinitely divisible into ever-smaller pieces? But infinity is also the place where things happen that don't. All manner of strange paradoxes and fantasies characterize an infinite universe. If our Universe is infinite then an infinite number of exact copies of you are, at this very moment, reading an identical sentence on an identical planet somewhere else in the Universe. Now Infinity is the darling of cutting edge research, the measuring stick used by physicists, cosmologists, and mathematicians to determine the accuracy of their theories. From the paradox of Zeno’s arrow to string theory, Cambridge professor John Barrow takes us on a grand tour of this most elusive of ideas and describes with clarifying subtlety how this subject has shaped, and continues to shape, our very sense of the world in which we live. The Infinite Book is a thoroughly entertaining and completely accessible account of the biggest subject of them all–infinity.
Author | : John D. Barrow |
Publisher | : OUP Oxford |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2007-06-28 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0191579378 |
Will we ever discover a single scientific theory that tells us everything that has happened, and everything that will happen, on every level in the Universe? The quest for the theory of everything - a single key that unlocks all the secrets of the Universe - is no longer a pipe-dream, but the focus of some of our most exciting research about the structure of the cosmos. But what might such a theory look like? What would it mean? And how close are we to getting there? In New Theories of Everything, John D. Barrow describes the ideas and controversies surrounding the ultimate explanation. Updating his earlier work Theories of Everything with the very latest theories and predictions, he tells of the M-theory of superstrings and multiverses, of speculations about the world as a computer program, and of new ideas of computation and complexity. But this is not solely a book about modern ideas in physics - Barrow also considers and reflects on the philosophical and cultural consequences of those ideas, and their implications for our own existence in the world. Far from there being a single theory uniquely specifying the constants and forces of nature, the picture today is of a vast landscape of different logically possible laws and constants in many dimensions, of which our own world is but a shadow: a tiny facet of a higher dimensional reality. But this is not to say we should give up in bewilderment: Barrow shows how many rich and illuminating theories and questions arise, and what this may mean for our understanding of our own place in the cosmos.