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按照进步主义的乐观观点,尽管物质世界是无限的,但科学的认知也是无限的,人虽然不能穷尽所有的知识,但总可以无限逼近宇宙的真相。果真如此吗?
约翰·巴罗著,李新洲、徐建军、翟向华译《不论:科学的极限与极限的科学》(Impossibility: the limits of science and the science of limits)讨论了科学的极限问题。如四种不同的科学未来,计算机和网络存在不可操作问题,技术和物质结构尺度存在极限,关于宇宙起源与整体结构探索存在极限,哥德尔定理与测不准原理等深层认知的局限性,理智选举体制中怪异的不可能性(不存在可靠的、可以建立理性的集体选择的方法)。
需要指出的是,书名没译好。明明是“不可能性(Impossibility)”,却译为“不论”,这是什么话?
A five-dimensional black hole could break the laws of physics as we know them
If you thought regular black holes were about as weird and mysterious as space gets, think again, because for the first time, physicists have successfully simulated what would happen to black holes in a five-dimensional world, and the way they behave could threaten our fundamental understanding of how the Universe works. The simulation has suggested that if our Universe is made up of five or more dimensions - something that scientists have struggled to confirm or disprove - Einstein's general theory of relativity, the foundation of modern physics, would be wrong. In other words, five-dimensional black holes would contain gravity so intense, the laws of physics as we know them would fall apart.
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