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Impossibility : the limits of science and the science of limits

Explores the frontiers of knowledge, discussing the restrictions that may be imposed upon a full understanding of the physical universe by the limits of technology, computers, cost, and complexity; and considering how the mind's awareness of the impossible influences perceptions of reality
eBook, English, 1998
Oxford University Press, New York, 1998
1 online resource (xiii, 279 pages) : illustrations
9780585133621, 9780195351385, 058513362X, 019535138X
43476755
The art of the impossible; the hope of progress; back to the future; being human; techological limits; cosmological limits; deep limits; impossibility and us; impossibility - taking stock.
Electronic reproduction, [Place of publication not identified], HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010
English