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Bezig met laden... The Motion Paradox: The 2,500-Year Old Puzzle Behind All the Mysteries of Time and Space (editie 2007)door Joseph Mazur
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. Investigates the paradox of the Continuum and comes to some unsettling conclusions. ( ) C'è un concetto molto bello che apre questo libro. Generalmente si afferma che i paradossi di Zenone siano banalmente stati risolti quando i matematici hanno formalizzato i concetti del calcolo infinitesimale. Peccato che questo non sia affatto vero: quello che abbiamo è un formalismo matematico che è in accordo con la nostra esperienza macroscopica, ma che non può dirci nulla su cosa succede a livello ultramicroscopico. Insomma, saper sommare una serie infinita non ci dice nulla se spazio e tempo siano continui o discreti, né cosa succede effettivamente. Mazur, ben tradotto da Claudio Piga, racconta come i paradossi di Zenone siano stati trattati nei secoli, con una serie di divagazioni che solo a posteriori mostrano la relazione con il tema del libro. Insomma, un lato diverso dal solito per la trattazione dei paradossi, che ci ricorda come la matematica, pur essendo indispensabile, non è totalizzante. The Motion Paradox by Joseph Mazur is very interesting. It discusses the paradoxes of Zeno of Elea that argue against motion being possible and places them in more modern contexts. This is especially the case with our concepts of motion and time. Take time for instance. It is assumed that there is the shortest duration of time possible, which would make it discrete and not continuous. All of it depends on the size of the measuring device used for the quantity. Since the book discusses motion and time it talks about the development of mathematical tools necessary to model these phenomena. There really isn’t much else to discuss. The book was enjoyable and very informative. It talked about a lot of things I was familiar with such as relativity and Zeno of Elea but did so in an innovative manner. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
The epic tale of an ancient, unsolved puzzle and how it relates to all scientific attempts to explain the basic structure of the universe At the dawn of science the ancient Greek philosopher Zeno formulated his paradox of motion, and amazingly, it is still on the cutting edge of all investigations into the fabric of reality. Zeno used logic to argue that motion is impossible, and at the heart of his maddening puzzle is the nature of space and time. Is space-time continuous or broken up like a string of beads? Over the past two millennia, many of our greatest minds--including Aristotle, Galileo, Newton, Einstein, Stephen Hawking, and other current theoreticians--have been gripped by the mystery this puzzle represents. Joseph Mazur, acclaimed author of Euclid in the Rainforest, shows how historic breakthroughs in our understanding of motion shed light on Zeno's paradox. The orbits of the planets were explained, the laws of motion were revealed, the theory of relativity was discovered--but the basic structure of time and space remained elusive. In the tradition of Fermat's Enigma and Zero, The Motion Paradox is a lively history of this apparently simple puzzle whose solution--if indeed it can be solved--will reveal nothing less than the fundamental nature of reality. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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