From Certainity To Uncertainity By F. David Peat

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Peat, F. David, 1938-

From certainty to uncertainty : the story of science and ideas in the

twentieth century / F. David Peat.

p. cm.

Includes index.

ISBN 0-309-07641-2 (hard)

1. Physics—Philosophy. 2. Certainty. 3. Chaotic behavior in

systems. 4. Physics—History—20th century. I. Title: Story of science

and ideas in the twentieth century. II. Title.

QC6 .P33 2002

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2002001482

Cover art: Diego Rodriguez Velazquez, Las Meninas (detail), copyright Erich

Lessing/Art Resource, NY (left side); Michele de la Menardiere, Homage to Las

Meninas (right side).

Copyright 2002 by F. David Peat. All rights reserved.

Printed in the United States of America.

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Preface ix

1 Quantum Uncertainty 1

2 On Incompleteness 27

3 From Object to Process 52

4 Language 71

5 The End of Representation 90

6 From Clockwork to Chaos 115

7 Re-envisioning the Planet 154

8 Pausing the Cosmos 187

Postscript 215

Appendix: Gödel’s Theorem 217

Index 223