Lake Views: This World and the Universe

Lake Views: This World and the Universe
	First edition
Author	Steven Weinberg
Language	English
Publisher	Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Publication date	2009
Publication place	United States
Media type	Print
Pages	272
ISBN	978-0-674-03515-7
OCLC	319493059

Lake Views: This World and the Universe is a 2009 book of 25 essays written by Steven Weinberg. They were published in various periodicals and books in the years 2000 to 2008.^[1] The essays deal with science, politics, history, and philosophy.^[2]^[3]

Essays

1. Waiting for a Final Theory
2. Can Science Explain Everything? Anything? (2001)
3. Peace at Last in the Science Wars
4. The Future of Science, and the Universe (2001)
5. Dark Energy
6. How Great Equations Survive
7. On Missile Defense (2002)
8. The Growing Nuclear Danger (2002)
9. Is the Universe a Computer? (2002)
10. Foreword to A Century of Nature (2003)
11. Ambling toward Apocalypse (2003)
12. What Price Glory? (2003)
13. Four Golden Lessons (2003)

14. The Wrong Stuff (2004)
15. A Turning Point?
16. About Oppenheimer (2005)
17. Einstein's Search for Unification
18. Einstein's Mistakes (2005)
19. Living in the Multiverse (2007); 2005 arXiv preprint (The essay in the book is rewritten for a non-technical readership.)
20. Against the Boycott
21. A Deadly Certitude (2007)
22. To the Postdocs (2007)
23. Science or Spacemen
24. Israel and the Liberals
25. Without God (2008)

Reception

Lake Views is a very readable account of Weinberg’s thoughts about science, politics, and life, conveying both his deep intelligence and his ruthless pursuit of truth—in physics, philosophy, and even public policy. Yet this intellectual warrior also comes off as a kind and sympathetic man who respects others, even his intellectual enemies. ... any serious reader, regardless of outlook, will ponder Weinberg’s Lake Views long after finishing the book.^[2]

References

^ Weinberg, Steven (2009). Lake Views. Harvard University Press. ISBN 9780674035157.
^ ^a ^b Susskind, Leonard (2010). "Review of Lake Views: This World and the Universe by Steven Weinberg". Physics Today. 63 (4): 53. doi:10.1063/1.3397044.
^ Dyson, Freeman (2015-04-21). "Chapter 10. What Price Glory (review of Lake Views: This World and the Universe)". Dreams of Earth and Sky. New York Review of Books. pp. 143–156. ISBN 9781590178553.

External links

Weinberg, Steven (2012-07-30). Lake Views. Harvard University Press. ISBN 9780674071995.
"Lake Views: This World and the Universe". C-SPAN. 24 October 2011.

[1] Weinberg, Steven (2009). Lake Views. Harvard University Press. ISBN 9780674035157.

[PT-2] Susskind, Leonard (2010). "Review of Lake Views: This World and the Universe by Steven Weinberg". Physics Today. 63 (4): 53. doi:10.1063/1.3397044.

[3] Dyson, Freeman (2015-04-21). "Chapter 10. What Price Glory (review of Lake Views: This World and the Universe)". Dreams of Earth and Sky. New York Review of Books. pp. 143–156. ISBN 9781590178553.

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