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Impossibility: the limits of science

BIG IDEAS


Are there limits to science? We will look first at the questions which 19th-century commentators claimed would never be answered. Then we will explore the different types of limits – practical, computational, and fundamental – that constrain what we can know about the universe. Some of these limits are consequences of our nature, some are consequences of the universe’s nature, while others are consequences of the nature of knowledge itself.


Speaker(s):

Prof John Barrow | talks | www

 

Date and Time:

26 January 2006 at 1:00 pm

Duration:

1 hour

 

Venue:

The Museum of London
London Wall
London
EC2Y 5HN


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Organised by:

Gresham College
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