The Whole Truth: A Cosmologist's Reflections on the Search for Objective Reality

by P.J.E. Peebles

From the Nobel Prize-winning physicist, a personal meditation on the quest for objective reality in natural science

A century ago, thoughtful people questioned how reality could agree with physical theories that kept changing, from a mechanical model of the ether to electric and magnetic fields, and from homogeneous matter to electrons and atoms. Today, concepts like dark matter and dark energy further complicate and enrich the search...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691231370
• ISBN13: 9780691231372
• Release Date: October 2024
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 264 Pages