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Indlæser... Surfing Through Hyperspace: Understanding Higher Universes in Six Easy Lessonsaf Clifford A. Pickover
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Do a little armchair time-travel, rub elbows with a four-dimensional intelligent life form, or stretch your mind to the furthest corner of an uncharted universe. With this astonishing guidebook, Surfing Through Hyperspace, you need not be a mathematician or an astrophysicist to explore theall-but-unfathomable concepts of hyperspace and higher-dimensional geometry.No subject in mathematics has intrigued both children and adults as much as the idea of a fourth dimension. Philosophers and parapsychologists have meditated on this mysterious space that no one can point to but may be all around us. Yet this extra dimension has a very real, practical value tomathematicians and physicists who use it every day in their calculations. In the tradtion of Flatland, and with an infectious enthusiasm, Clifford Pickover tackles the problems inherent in our 3-D brains trying to visualize a 4-D world, muses on the religious implications of the existence ofhigher-dimensional consciousness, and urges all curious readers to venture into "the unexplored territory lying beyond the prison of the obvious." Pickover alternates sections that explain the science of hyperspace with sections that dramatize mind-expanding concepts through a fictional dialoguebetween two futuristic FBI agents who dabble in the fourth dimension as a matter of national security. This highly accessible and entertaining approach turns an intimidating subject into a scientific game open to all dreamers.Surfing Through Hyperspace concludes with a number of puzzles, computer experiments and formulas for further exploration, inviting readers to extend their minds across this inexhaustibly intriguing scientific terrain. No library descriptions found. |
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I guess I feel like Clifford Pickover is the Stephen King of popular science. His books are numerous and when I see one, I think "oh, that looks great," but inevitably wind up feeling as though the books would individually be better if there weren't so dang many of them! They tend to have a thrown-together, slightly chintzy, not-quite-fully-edited feel to them. There is typically stuff in a Pickover book I'm glad to have encountered, but in sum they feel somewhat dashed off, and this one is no exception.
I also am not sure I like theological speculation in my science. ( )