Bedeviled - A Shadow History of Demons in Science

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2020 | ISBN: 0691175322 | English | 416 pages | PDF | 32 MB

How scientists through the ages have conducted thought experiments using imaginary entities―ns―to test the laws of nature and push the frontiers of what is possible



Science may be known for banishing the ns of superstition from the modern world. Yet just as the n-haunted world was being exorcized by the enlightening power of reason, a new kind of n mischievously materialized in the scientific imagination itself. Scientists began to employ hypothetical beings to perform certain roles in thought experiments―experiments that can only be done in the imagination―and these impish assistants helped scientists achieve major breakthroughs that pushed forward the frontiers of science and technology.



Spanning four centuries of discovery―from René Descartes, whose n could hijack sensorial reality, to James Clerk Maxwell, whose molecular-sized n deftly broke the second law of thermodynamics, to Darwin, Einstein, Feynman, and beyond―Jimena Canales tells a shadow history of science and the ns that bedevil it. She reveals how the greatest scientific thinkers used ns to explore problems, test the limits of what is possible, and better understand nature. Their imaginary familiars helped unlock the secrets of entropy, heredity, relativity, quantum mechanics, and other scientific wonders―and continue to inspire breakthroughs in the realms of computer science, artificial intelligence, and economics today.



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