Book description
The Beginning of Infinity explores the unlimited scope and power of the
big issues that inform our understanding of how the physical world
works. It looks at the philosophy of science from an uncompromising
perspective and reaches startling new conclusions about the nature of
human choice, scientific explanation and the evolution of culture. The
Beginning of Infinity opens a door to a whole new way of thinking about
free will, creativity, the laws of nature, the origin and future of our
species, reality and beyond - and reveals that all these things have a
fundamental place in our universe. And at the centre, their sole
creators - human beings - are the most significant entitites in the
cosmic scheme of things. Everything - not only science and mathematics
but morality, politics and aesthetics - is within the reach of reason.
In this bold, uncompromising and all-embracing intellectual exploration,
David Deutsch shows us that within the universal laws of physics, there
are no limits to progress. David Deutsch's research in quantum physics
has been influential and highly acclaimed. He was awarded the Institute
of Physics' Paul Dirac Prize and Medal in 1998, the premier award for
theoretical physics and the Edge of Computation Science Prize in 2005.
He is a member of the Quantum Computation and Cryptography Research
Group at the Clarendon Laboratory, Oxford University.
