The world within the world

Abstract

Part 1: including the urge to predict and control description or prescription accidental, legal and statistical laws intelligibility. Part 2 Time past: including social and religious precursors Chinese science Plato Aristotle Newton the rationality of the world Darwinian laws. Part 3 Unseen worlds: including the Sandemanian world-view the end of visualization? mathematical modelling symmetry thermodynamics quantum laws schizophrenic matter the EPR paradox quantum ailurophobia. Part 4 Inner space and outer space: including quarks the inner space credo chaotic cosmology. Part 5 Why are the laws of nature mathematical?: including what is mathematics? a shock for the formalists consequences for physical science what is truth? computability Maxwell on determinism equations. Part 6 Are there any laws of nature?: including heretical notions spontaneous order does life transcend the laws of nature?: accidental symmetries black hole ontogenesis cosmic censorship staccato time constants of nature. Part 7 Selection effects: including the Groucho Marx effect the Anthropic Principle coincidences is the Anthropic Principle an argument for the existence of God?. Select bibliography.

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