![]() ![]() His final section is a brief but sensible account of Gödel's Incompleteness Theorem and its relationship to physics. He concentrates on the less well known ideas, rather than ploughing once again the well worn furrow of the popular account of relativity and quantum mechanics. He skims quickly over some of the problems Horgan talks about, such as the increasing economic cost of scientific experimentation these limitations are not scientific in nature (non-scientific events such as a change of government may change their nature) and there is little that can be said about them beyond acknowledging their existence.īarrow is far more interested in the limitations inherent in modern scientific theories, such as the impossibility of knowing what happens outside the edge of the visible universe. In what is almost a response to John Horgan's The End of Science, Barrow examines the limitations of scientific thought from several different points of view with the aim of working out what science can say about what it cannot say. ![]() Originally published on my blog here in April 2000. ![]()
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