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Bedeviled: A Shadow History Of Demons In Science
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How Scientists Through The Ages Have Conducted Thought Experiments Using Imaginary Entitiesdemonsto Test The Laws Of Nature And Push The Frontiers Of What Is Possiblescience May Be Known For Banishing The Demons Of Superstition From The Modern World. Yet Just As The Demonhaunted World Was Being Exorcized By The Enlightening Power Of Reason, A New Kind Of Demon Mischievously Materialized In The Scientific Imagination Itself. Scientists Began To Employ Hypothetical Beings To Perform Certain Roles In Thought Experimentsexperiments That Can Only Be Done In The Imaginationand These Impish Assistants Helped Scientists Achieve Major Breakthroughs That Pushed Forward The Frontiers Of Science And Technology.Spanning Four Centuries Of Discoveryfrom Ren Descartes, Whose Demon Could Hijack Sensorial Reality, To James Clerk Maxwell, Whose Molecularsized Demon Deftly Broke The Second Law Of Thermodynamics, To Darwin, Einstein, Feynman, And Beyondjimena Canales Tells A Shadow History Of Science And The Demons That Bedevil It. She Reveals How The Greatest Scientific Thinkers Used Demons To Explore Problems, Test The Limits Of What Is Possible, And Better Understand Nature. Their Imaginary Familiars Helped Unlock The Secrets Of Entropy, Heredity, Relativity, Quantum Mechanics, And Other Scientific Wondersand Continue To Inspire Breakthroughs In The Realms Of Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, And Economics Today.The World May No Longer Be Haunted As It Once Was, But The Demons Of The Scientific Imagination Are Alive And Well, Continuing To Play A Vital Role In Scientists' Efforts To Explore The Unknown And Make The Impossible Real.
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