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About the Book:
As a science
cosmology is limited to the study of the universe as a whole,
drawing conclusions based on astronomical observation and
mathematical models. Over time cosmology has evolved from a
speculative enterprise into a data-driven science; however, even in
this new cosmology of facts and figures the origins of our universe
remain a mystery, one that will perhaps never be solved.
Every day new
theories on the birth and evolution of the universe are made without
the support of scientific observation-theories that may never be
proven by hard evidence. And so cosmology remains a principle driven
enterprise, with its roots deeply planted in the soil of uncertainty
and wonder, in many ways completely contradictory to the definition
of science as we know it today.
Bruce Kriger takes
readers on a breathtaking journey from the hallowed halls of Harvard
to the Isle of Freedom and into the roots of the philosophy of
cosmology, deploying an understanding of physics and philosophy to
mount a serious challenge to the dominant cosmologist view, expose
the politics behind conventional scientific theories (proving that
in many cases it isn’t the science but the funding behind it that
dictates which direction scientific discovery and cosmology itself
will take) and define the ultimate limits of human knowledge to form
a sober view of what we can know and what will always remain a
mystery.
About the
Author:
Bruce
Kriger is a prolific scientific writer whose work has been published
in a number of languages. He is a member of several associations
including: the Canadian Science Writers' Association, the Canadian
Philosophical Association, the International Academy of Science, the
World Future Society, the National Space Society and the Royal
Astronomical Society of Canada and Planetary Society. In 1996 he
has formed his own organization called the Kriger Research Group.
Through this organization Kriger has been instrumental in bringing
together other research organizations and training institutions for
different scientific projects.
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