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The Encyclopaedia of Ignorance
Published in Paperback by Elsevier Science Ltd (1977)
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They were not kidding. This is a series of short essays packed with profound questions and a powerful amount of knowledge to back the questions up. If you are a Gary Zukav fan then this will defiantly be to complex for you.
The contributors are too numerous to mention; however they include information from Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking. Just as you think this is a past cutting edge physics book, it switches to "What is consciousness and do we really need it?" You will find augments for and against your favorite theories.
Some of the Contents are
Why
O. R. Frich
The Lure of Completeness
Sir Hermann Bondi
Nature of Knowledge
R. A. Lyttlen
Is Physics Legislated by Cosmogony?
J. A. Wheeler and C. M. Patton
Is Space Curved?
I.W. Roxburgh
Relativity and Time
T. Gold
Mathematics in Social Science
C. W. Kilmister
Learning and Memory and the Nervous System
H.A. Buchtel and G. Berlucchi
Sleep
W.B. Webb
The Veils of Gaia
P. Cloud
The Design of Novel Replicating Polymers
A.G. Cairns-Smith and C.J. Davis
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Plan on some thinking time.