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One True Platonic Heaven: A Scientific Fiction of the Limits of Knowledge by John L. Casti,

One True Platonic Heaven: A Scientific Fiction of the Limits of Knowledge by John L. Casti,
By the author of The Cambridge Quintet, John L. Casti's new book continues the tradition of combining fact with just the right dose of fiction--bringing the science to us in a wholly informative and entertaining way. In the fall of 1933 the newly founded Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, welcomed its first faculty member, Albert Einstein. With this superstar on the roster, the Institute was able to attract the greatest scholars, scientists, and poets from around the world. It was an intellectual haven, a place where the most brilliant minds on the planet, sheltered from the outside world's cares and calamities, could collaborate and devote their time to the pure and exclusive pursuit of knowledge. For many of them, it was the "one, true, platonic heaven." Over the years, key figures at the Institute began to question the limits to what science could tell us about the world, pondering the universal secrets it might unlock. Could science be the ultimate source of truth or are there intrinsic limits, built into the very fabric of the universe, to what we can learn? In the late 1940s and early 1950s, this important question was being asked by some of the Institute's deepest thinkers. Enter the dramatis personae to illuminate the science and the philosophy of the time. Mathematical logician Kurt Godel was the unacknowledged Grant Exalted Ruler of this platonic estate. Also in residence was his colleague, the Hungarian-American polymath John van Neumann, developer of game theory, the axiomatic foundations of quantum mechanics, and the digital computer. Einstein, by common consensus the greatest physicist the 20th century had ever known, also figures large in this story.And, of course, the director of the Institute, J. Robert Oppenheimer, the father of the atomic bomb, must by necessity be key to any story that focuses in on this time and place.



The John Bull: A British Locomotive Comes to America
The John Bull: A British Locomotive Comes to America
The story of a steam-powered wonder The "John Bull -- now on permanent display at the Smithsonian Institution -- was imported from England in 1831, and its cutting-edge design had a huge impact on American locomotive history. Used to help build and then run the first successful New Jersey railroad, the" John Bull transported passengers and freight between New York City and Philadelphia more quickly and efficiently than ever before. And within a few years, more than a dozen locomotives were constructed following the "John Bull's design, helping to spawn a vigorous and vital new American industry. With detailed text and exacting pen-and-ink artwork -- including here's-how-it-works diagrams -- David Weitzman re-creates the" John Bull's colorful history for young train buffs.



New Jersey Institute of Technology - New Jersey Institute of Technology (subsuming the Newark College of Engineering) is a public research university in Newark, New Jersey. NJIT offers 100 degree programs in 27 undergraduate majors and 30 graduate specialties.

University Heights, Newark, New Jersey - University Heights is a neighborhood in Newark, New Jersey, so named because of the location of four academic institutions within its boundaries — Rutgers University (Newark Campus), the New Jersey Institute of Technology, the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (UMDNJ), and Essex County College. The neighborhood is roughly bounded by Central Avenue to the north, Bergen Street to the west, South Orange Avenue to the south, and University Avenue to the east.

New Jersey Performing Arts Center - The New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC) is a complex in downtown Newark of musical and theater facilities that opened in 1997. It is one of the major parts of Newark's revitalization plan in the center near the Passaic River waterfront, east of New Jersey Institute of Technology campus.

Morris County Academy for Mathematics, Science, and Engineering - The Morris County Academy for Math, Science, and Engineering is located in the town of Rockaway, New Jersey (a suburb of New York City, New York). Organizations involved with the Academy include New Jersey Institute of Technology, County College of Morris, The Research & Development Council of New Jersey, Verizon, The Morris/Sussex/Warren Workforce Investment Board, and the Morris County School of Technology.



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