Cosmology, Physics and Philosophy [electronic resource] / by Benjamin Gal-Or.

Author: Gal-Or, Benjamin
Published: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 1983.
Edition: 1st ed. 1983.
Physical Description: XV, 522 pages 86 illustrations : online resource
Additional Creators: SpringerLink (Online service)

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Cosmology, Physics and Philosophy -- Preliminary Concepts -- From Terrestrial Gravitational Structures to Black Holes and Neutrinos in Astrophysics -- From "Conservation" in Classical Physics to Solitons in Particle Physics -- From General Relativity and Relativistic Cosmology to Gauge Theories -- From Physics to Philosophical Crossroads and Back -- The Arrows of Time -- The Crisis in Quantum Physics -- From Physics to Cosmological Crossroads and Back -- Cosmology, Physics and Philosophy -- Cosmological Origin of Time and Evolution -- Black Holes and the Unification of Asymmetries -- Beyond Present Knowledge -- Havayism - The Science of the Whole -- Critique of Western Thought -- A Few Historical Remarks on Time, Mind, and Symmetry -- The Philosophy of Time & Change: Some Historical Notions -- Structuralism and the Divided American Thought: A Short Glossary of Terms -- Policy and Publicity: A Critique -- Thought-Provoking and Thought-Depressing Quotations -- Critique of Western Methodology.

Summary

by Sir Karl Popper This is a great book, and an exciting book. I say so even though I happen to dis agree with the author in many minor points and one or two major points. Some of the minor points are merely terminological, and therefore very minor. I dislike the term 'dialectic', because of its use since Hegel and Marx; and I dislike the term 'gravitism', perhaps without a good reason. Thus I dislike the name which Professor Gal-Or has given to his theory. But the theory seems to me a great and a very beauti ful theory, so far as I can judge. Other minor points of disagreement are connected with Gal-Or's original and remarkable views of the great philosophers, including Spinoza and Kant. A major point of disagreement is that Gal-Or, following Einstein, is a scientific determinist, while I cannot but regard determinism as a modem super stition. Of course, he may be right and I may be completely mistaken. I mention these critical points rather in order to emphasize how strongly I am impressed by Professor Gal-Or's great book. Even in the very unlikely case that, wherever we disagree, he should be in the wrong and I right, even if that should be the case (which is improbable in the extreme), it would remain a great book: readable, worth reading and enlightening; with a most fascinating cosmological story of time, expansion, and gravitation.

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