Lawless Universe: Science and the Hunt for Reality

What follows is a compilation of the books listed in all of the chapter bibliographies, arranged alphabetically by author. The numbers concluding the entries here are the numbers of the chapters in whose chapter bibliographies a book is listed.

R. K. Adair, The Great Design: Particles, Fields, and Creation (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1987). 2, 5–8

P. W. Atkins, The Creation (Freeman, San Francisco, 1981). 5

J. D. Barrow, The World within the World (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1988). 2, 4–8

J. D. Barrow and J. Silk, The Left Hand of Creation: The Origin and Evolution of the Expanding Universe (Heinemann, London, 1983). 5–7

J. D. Barrow and F. J. Tipler, The Anthropic Cosmological Principle (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1986). 7

H. Broch, Exposed! Ouija, Firewalking, and Other Gibberish (Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 2009). 2, 5–7

G. Charpak and H. Broch, Debunked! ESP, Telekinesis, and Other Pseudoscience (Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 2004). 2, 5–7

F. Close, The Cosmic Onion: Quarks and the Nature of the Universe (American Institute of Physics, New York, 1983). 5, 6

E. Conee and T. Sider, Riddles of Existence: A Guided Tour of Metaphysics (Oxford University Press, New York, 2007). 4, 8

A. H. Cromer, Connected Knowledge: Science, Philosophy, and Education (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1997). 1, 4

———, Uncommon Sense: The Heretical Nature of Science (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1993). 1

G. Darvas, Symmetry (Birkhäuser, Basel, 2007). 2, 3

P. C. W. Davies, The Forces of Nature, 2nd ed. (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1986). 6

———, The Accidental Universe (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge,

1982). 6, 7

———, The Edge of Infinity (Simon and Schuster, New York, 1981). 5

———, Other Worlds: A Portrait of Nature in Rebellion; Space, Superspace and the Quantum Universe (Simon and Schuster, New York, 1980). 5–8

———, The Runaway Universe (Harper and Row, New York, 1978). 5

———, Space and Time in the Modern Universe (Cambridge University

Press, Cambridge, 1977). 5, 7

P. C. W. Davies and J. R. Brown, eds., Superstrings: A Theory of Everything? (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1988). 5

———, eds., The Ghost in the Atom: A Discussion of the Mysteries of Quantum Physics (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1986). 5, 6, 8

B. d’Espagnat, Reality and the Physicist: Knowledge, Duration and the Quantum World (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1989). 8

———, In Search of Reality (Springer-Verlag, New York, 1983). 6–8

M. Eigen and R. Winkler, Laws of the Game: How the Principles of Nature Govern Chance (Knopf, New York, 1981, and Princeton University Press, Princeton, N.J., 1993). 4, 6–8

T. Ferris, The Whole Shebang: A State-of-the-Universe(s) Report (Simon and Schuster, New York, 1997). 5

R. P. Feynman, The Character of Physical Law (MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass., 1965). 2, 5, 6

H. Fritzsch, The Creation of Matter: The Universe from Beginning to End (Basic Books, New York, 1984). 2, 4–8

A. Gianelli, K. Kennedy, and G. Statile, eds., The Journey of Metaphysics, 2nd ed. (Pearson, Boston, 2006). 4, 8

M. Gleiser, The Dancing Universe: From Creation Myths to the Big Bang (Dutton (Penguin), New York, 1997). 5

S. J. Gould, Science and Religion in the Fullness of Life (Random House, New York, 1998). 1

B. Greene, The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality (Vintage, New York, 2004). 5

———,The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory (Vintage, New York, 2003). 5

J. Gribbin and M. Rees, The Stuff of the Universe: Dark Matter, Mankind and the Coincidences of Cosmology (Heinemann, London, 1989). 5, 7

P. R. Gross, N. Levitt, and M. W. Lewis, eds., The Flight from Science and Reason (New York Academy of Sciences, New York, 1996). 1

A. Guth, The Inflationary Universe: The Quest for a New Theory of Cosmic Origins (Addison-Wesley, Reading, Mass., 1997). 5

E. Harrison, Masks of the Universe: Changing Ideas on the Nature of the Cosmos, 2nd ed. (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2003). 6–8

S. W. Hawking, A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes (Bantam, London, 1988). 5–7

T. Hey and P. Walters, The Quantum Universe (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1987). 5, 6

P. Kurtz, ed., Science and Religion: Are They Compatible? (Prometheus, Amherst, N.Y., 2003). 1

M. Lange, An Introduction to the Philosophy of Physics: Locality, Fields, Energy, and Mass. (Wiley-Blackwell, Hoboken, N.J., 2002). 4, 8

K. Lorenz, Behind the Mirror: A Search for a Natural History of Human Knowledge (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, New York, 1977). 6–8

J. Monod, Chance and Necessity: An Essay on the Natural Philosophy of Modern Biology (Knopf, New York, 1971). 4, 6–8

R. Morris, The Nature of Reality (McGraw-Hill, New York, 1987). 6–8

———, Dismantling the Universe: The Nature of Scientific Discovery (Simon and Schuster, New York, 1983). 2, 6–8

———, The Fate of the Universe (Playboy Press, New York, 1982). 5

———, The End of the World (Anchor Press, Garden City, N.Y., 1980). 5

R. G. Newton, The Truth of Science: Physical Theories and Reality (Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass., 1997). 1, 2

———, What Makes Nature Tick? (Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass., 1993). 2, 3

H. R. Pagels, Perfect Symmetry: The Search for the Beginning of Time (Simon and Schuster, New York, 1985, and Bantam, Toronto, 1986). 5

———, The Cosmic Code: Quantum Physics as the Language of Nature (Simon and Schuster, New York, 1982). 2, 5, 6, 8

D. Park, The How and the Why (Princeton University Press, Princeton, N.J., 1988). 2, 3, 5–8

———, One World: The Interaction of Science and Theology (Princeton University Press, Princeton, N.J., 1986). 4

———, The Quantum World (Princeton University Press, Princeton, N.J., 1984). 5, 6, 8

I. Prigogine and I. Stengers, Order out of Chaos: Man’s New Dialogue with Nature (Bantam Books, New York, 1984). 2, 4, 6, 7

A. Rae, Quantum Physics: Illusion or Reality (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1986). 5, 6, 8

F. Rohrlich, From Paradox to Reality: Our New Concepts of the Physical World (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1987). 3, 5–8

J. Rosen, Symmetry Discovered: Concepts and Applications in Nature and Science (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1975; reprinted with additions by Dover Publications, Mineola, N.Y., 1998). 2, 3

C. Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark (Ballantine Books, New York, 1996). 1

M. Shermer, Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time (Freeman, San Francisco, 1997). 1, 2, 4–7

J. Silk, The Big Bang, revised and updated ed. (Freeman, San Francisco, 1989). 5, 6

L. Smolin, The Life of the Cosmos (Oxford University Press, New York, 1997). 5

V. J. Stenger, The Comprehensible Cosmos: Where Do the Laws of Physics Come from? (Prometheus, Amherst, N.Y., 2006). 2, 6

———, Physics and Psychics: The Search for a World beyond the Senses (Prometheus, Amherst, N.Y., 1992). 1, 6

J. S. Trefil, Reading the Mind of God: In Search of the Principle of Universality (Charles Scribner’s Sons, New York, 1989). 2, 5, 6, 8

———,The Moment of Creation: Big Bang Physics from Before the First Millisecond to the Present Universe (Charles Scribner’s Sons, New York, 1983). 4–6

P. van Inwagen, Metaphysics, 3rd ed. (Westview, Boulder, Colo., 2008). 4, 8

S. Weinberg, Facing Up: Science and Its Cultural Adversaries (Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass., 2001). 1

———, Dreams of a Final Theory (Pantheon Books, New York, 1993). 5