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The Virtue of Heresy: Confessions of a Dissident Astronomer, Second Edition, Revised and Updated

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  • Publisher: Booksurge Publishing
  • 13.4 x 20.3 x 2.4 cm

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Heresy: The declaration of opinions contrary to prevailing doctrine; opposition to dogma; unorthodox approach to science; method employed by one\'s intellectual enemy; behaviour characteristic of a crank. In the course of using essential theories of science in my decades-long attempt to demystify the heavens, I became increasingly frustrated by ideas that just didn\'t harmonise. If we were uncovering the truth, I reasoned, then the component parts devised by disparate specialists should dovetail neatly together. But they don\'t. Classical Newtonian Mechanics doesn\'t see eye-to-eye with Einstein\'s Relativity; both are sneered at by Quantum Mechanics. Theories highly successful in their own right seemed when compared with one another to be describing different universes. That was a train-smash, both for me and for the progress of science, as I understood it. This book is an account of that crisis. But fear not, it\'s not a high-tech science report for ber-geeks. It\'s a storybook filled with myth and adventure. It\'s science unplugged. Take your time. This heresy will change your life. Hilton Ratcliffe, Astronomer with a Mental Squint.
The Virtue of Heresy: Confessions of a Dissident Astronomer, Second Edition, Revised and Updated and Sacred And The Profane
Sacred And The ProfaneThe Virtue of Heresy: Confessions of a Dissident Astronomer, Second Edition, Revised and Updated

  • Title

    The Virtue of Heresy: Confessions of a Dissident Astronomer, Second Edition, Revised and Updated

  • Author

    Hilton Ratcliffe

  • Book Format

    Paperback

  • Publisher

    Booksurge Publishing

  • Published

    July 2008

  • Weight

    477g

  • Dimensions

    13.4 x 20.3 x 2.4 cm

  • ISBN

    9781419695568

  • ISBN-10

    1419695568

  • Eden Code

    4738464

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