Ultimum Mysterium: Beyond the Cutting Edge of Science

Ultimum Mysterium: Beyond the Cutting Edge of Science

by Anthony Burns
Ultimum Mysterium: Beyond the Cutting Edge of Science

Ultimum Mysterium: Beyond the Cutting Edge of Science

by Anthony Burns

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Overview

Ultimum Mysterium attempts to explain mysterious phenomena from a new perspective. In Section I: “The Puzzle”, the author sets out and examines a number of reportedly true cases of such activity, both from history and from more recent times, which are so bizarre that even current scientific theories are unable to offer an explanation. In Section II: “The Physics”, the author reviews the latest scientific discoveries (mainly in physics, but also in neurological research) with a view to seeing whether these can offer any kind of explanation to the strange phenomena described in Section I. In Section III: “The Philosophy”, the author examines the underlying philosophical issues to see what may be possible in terms of a scientific explanation. He argues the universe is what it is, regardless of what we may think about its workings. If the impossible happens, so be it. We need keep an open mind on the subject and embrace the bizarre, but fascinating world of the impossible.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781785352607
Publisher: Collective Ink
Publication date: 07/29/2016
Pages: 200
Product dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Anthony Burns is a retired Physics teacher living in Banbury, Oxfordshire, UK. He has taught college students in Oxford and is keenly interested in astronomy and unexplained phenomena.

Table of Contents

Introduction 1

I The Puzzle 5

1 A Bizarre World 6

2 Even Scientists Dream 44

3 Does Astrology Work? 56

4 The Scientists Investigate 65

II The Physics 75

5 What is Time? 76

6 The Pixellated Universe 90

7 Brains, Computers and Consciousness 101

8 Rule by Mathematics 115

9 Science at the Crossroads 128

III The Philosophy 137

10 Philosophy and Science 138

11 Limits to the Imagination 145

12 Building a Universe 152

13 The Physics of Astrology 159

14 The Making of Man 167

Postscript 174

Further Reading 176

Index 183

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