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Impossibility: The Limits of Science

Professor John D Barrow FRS · Gresham College

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About

Are there limits to science? We look first at the questions which 19th-century commentators claimed would never be answered. Then we explore the different types of limits – practical, computational, and fundamental – that constrain what we can know about the universe. Some of these limits are consequences of our nature, some are consequences of the universe’s nature, while others are consequences of the nature of knowledge itself.

The talk

  1. Impossibility: The Limits of Science 2006-01-26 · YouTube

Credits and licence

Institution
Gresham College
Speaker
Professor John D Barrow FRS
Year
2006
Level
For everyone
Language
English
Subjects
Physics
Source
Gresham College
Licence
Educational use (Gresham College's terms), as Gresham College states it. Gresham College's terms
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