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Book SynopsisLiberating Science: The Early Universe, Evolution and the Public Voice of Science is a presentation of science for the general reader, with an emphasis on correcting widely held misconceptions, and a call to liberate science from ''private ownership'' in cultural terms.Quantum fields and the physics of the early universe are described in non-technical language, showing what science can and cannot say about origins. Darwinian evolution is then discussed, giving due weight both to variation and to the constraints which shape the possible outcomes.The text provides a liberating view of what science is telling us about the natural world and offers the next generation a balanced and liberating view of their own moral stature.
Table of Contents1: A candid friend 2: What is a quantum field? 3: Quantum fluctuation? 4: The vacuum as a dynamical system 5: The very early Universe 6: Nothing comes of nothing 7: Rubble and randomness 8: What science can and cannot do 9: Science, science fiction and the multiverse 10: Could it simply be? 11: Religious imagery 12: Sinking the selfish gene 13: The magician's box 14: Stepping out 15: Angels with dirty faces 16: Science and sensibility 17: Great is the power of steady misrepresentation 18: Fruit pie 19: Contemporary thought and evolution 20: Brightland 21: Getting past Brightland
