Lake Views: This World and the Universe
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.39 (628 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0674035151 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 272 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-06-19 |
| Language | : | English |
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In the last essay, Without God, Weinberg expresses his atheism without the shrillness of a Dawkins or a Hitchens. He also ventures into science and politics, expressing skepticism about the need for a missile defense system. Elsewhere he argues against manned exploration of space, saying that probes and robots will always be faster, better, cheaper and certainly safer. (Jan.)Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. Nevertheless, Weinberg fans will find nuggets of insight and wisdom. All rights reserved. These essays started out as dinner speeches, book reviews (some from the New York Review of Books) and other occasional pieces that feel slight (such as a pep talk to postdocs). From Publishers Weekly Weinberg, a co-recipient of the 1979 Nobel Prize for physics, is well known for his ar
A new introduction precedes each essay, explaining how it came to be written and bringing it up to date where necessary. Even as he moves beyond the bounds of science, each essay reflects his experience as a theoretical physicist. As an essayist, Weinberg insists on seeing things as they are, without despair and with good humor. Just as Henry David Thoreau “traveled a great deal in Concord,” Nobel Prize–winning physicist Steven Weinberg sees much of the world from the window of his study overlooking Lake Austin. Sure to provoke his readers—postmodern cultural critics, enthusiasts for manned space flight or missile defense, economic conservatives, sociologists of science, anti-Zionists, and religious zealots—this book none
Laurence Chalem said A collection of his articles. And, yes, some of them are online, but that doesn't make them any less valuable. I had never heard of the arguement against sending our men and women--and plants and animals--into space; and, now that I have, I'm a believer. Save our money and, perhaps lives, and let robots do the work. Just like we did on the Mars missions. Highly recommended - lc. "Brilliant thinker but a little out of date" according to J. Davis. I am a huge admirer of Steven Weinberg. He is a brilliant man and a profound thinker. However, I can only give this book three stars, as most of the articles in it are several years old and available online. I have read several of the essays years before. I would have liked to see more recent work for a $26 book.. The sources of modern science and their power, some counterpart problems that arise, and a Nobel Laureate's urgent advice Chad M This book describes the sources of modern technology and nuclear science, and then in the second half reviews problems that arise from these sources. Bringing these two themes together, Prof. Weinberg concludes with advice, mainly, that US-Russian safeguards against an accidental ballistic missile launch must be strengthened. One of the most surprising statements in the book is that Prof. Weinberg, even as a Nobel Laureate, has received only minimal attention from the federal government on this essential advice: that while one or a few large terrorist attacks would be horrendous, these are survivable; how
He won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1979 and the National Medal of Science in 1991. . Steven Weinberg is Josey-Welch Foundation Chair in Science and Regental Professor at the University of Texas, Austin, and is the author of many books