Book Description
Extraordinary advances in science in the twentieth century profoundly changed the way we perceive the world. New discoveries restored mystery to the universe, revealing a system of symmetry and chaos.
In this book, world-renowned astrophysicist Trinh Xuan Thuan reignites the excitement of these discoveries while considering their philosophical and theological implications. He describes the process through which constraining and sterile determinism was challenged, transformed, and swept aside by contingency, which took a prominent place in fields as diverse as cosmology, astrophysics, geology, biology, and genetics. He traces the view of reality as dependent not only on natural laws, but also on a series of historical and contingent events.
Originally published in France where it became a bestseller, this is the first paperback English-language edition. --Ce texte fait référence à lédition Broché .
About the author
Trinh Xuan Thuan has been a professor of astronomy at the University of Virginia since 1976. He currently teaches a course in astronomy for non-scientists. His primary research involves studying very young dwarf galaxies in the local universe; he recently co-authored a study that identifies what is possibly the youngest known galaxy within this universe. He has written many articles on galaxy formation and evolution, and he is the author of several books for the general public.
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