التفاحة والذرة - اثنتا عشرة حكاية من الفيزياء المعاصرة By Sébastien Balibar

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Que Sais je I don t think Balibar fully realized his goal of accessibly sharing his passion for science with the reader but it was a passable effort and worth a read if you have an interest but haven t been keeping up with recent developments In the very last paragraph of this work Balibar writes If you think that science is incomprehensible especially contemporary science and especially physics if you re afraid of looking ridiculous if you don t understand if you still feel the sting from a dogmatic teacher and the way he graded you if you think that things are either true or false and are so now and forever if you don t dare to ask na ve questions if you are a victim of the intellectual terrorism called scientism I ve written this book for you and have tried to bring you to the frontiers of science with a few anecdotes align the way in the hopes that you might understand why scientific research is my passion and perhaps even share it. التفاحة والذرة - اثنتا عشرة حكاية من الفيزياء المعاصرة pdf drive This is a perfect introduction to this charming and accessible work Balibar uses personal stories to introduce and discuss aspects of the physical world in a dozen chapters He thus manages to bring such lofty subjects as chaos theory cosmology climatology etc down to a layman s perspective By transferring his own sense of awe and curiosity to the reader Balibar shows us how the science of physics can open up a rich and wonderful world which can absorb one completely for the rest of one s life His approach effortlessly shows how such a pursuit of knowledge and understanding is not only the adventure of a lifetime thoroughly satisfying in its achievements and in its enduring mysteries. التفاحة والذرة - اثنتا عشرة حكاية من الفيزياء المعاصرة bookkeeping As if that is not enough Balibar also has pertinent questions to ask of popularisers of science especially those who are concerned with what today we would call sound bites since they can and too often do result in the ordinary layman being misguided in their understanding of what science is about These could also result in a kind of politicising of science and the threat that provides regarding funding and research and introducing as it does a corrupting influence into the discipline Worse when such approaches are taken up by non scientists pseudo science and gibberish is the result As Balibar says I m disturbed when non scientists pretend to master esoteric vocabulary and dress up their talks with scientific adornments in order to seem wise they contribute to the image of science I m trying to resist Instead of stimulating people to engage in independent thought instead of developing their audience s sense of critical awareness they foist their claims upon them they indoctrinate they abuse their power through the use of jargon That s exactly the opposite of what I try to do This applies not only to scientific literature but also to literature in general The current darling of a certain type of French intellectual literary circle the highly successful writer Michel Houellebecq comes in for a particularly extensive serve Writers such as this appear to deliberately create the illusion of profundity by using scientific terminology when in fact they are writing gibberish and are ultimately incomprehensible A reader needs to know and be cognisant of what true science is about so that pseudoscientific gobbledegook can be seen to be what it is in order to circumvent and neutralise its popular poison and prevent its spreading