The Truth Of Science (physical Theories And Reality)

A distinguished physicist with a rare gift for making the most complicated scientific ideas comprehensible, Roger Newton gives us a guided tour of the intellectual structure of physical science. From there he conducts us through the understanding of reality engendered by modern physics, the most theoretically advanced of the sciences. With its firsthand look at models, facts, and theories, intuition and imagination, the use of analogies and metaphors, the importance of mathematics (and now, computers), and the "virtual" reality of the physics of micro-particles, The Truth of AScience truly is a practicing scientist’s account of the foundations, processes, and value of science. About Author: Roger G. Newton is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Physics at Indiana University, and author of What Makes Nature Tick?