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Most books that are written by scientists for the general public present what scientists know. By contrast, this book by this scientist is concerned with what most scientists know little about and ignore - topics considered theoretically impossible and/or devoid of credible evidence. There are fourteen examples. Some are familiar challenges, such as purportedly psychic phenomena and the enigmatic UFO reports. Some are less familiar, such as cold fusion and evidence that radioactive decay rates – usually considered to be constant for any element – may not be constant after all. But the topics are not restricted to conventional or even unconventional science - scientific thinking may sometimes be applied to non-scientific questions. The book ends with an example – Who wrote the plays and poems conventionally attributed to “Shakespeare”?
- Sales Rank: #1287150 in Books
- Published on: 2015-10-31
- Original language: English
- Dimensions: 9.00" h x .42" w x 6.00" l,
- Binding: Paperback
- 186 pages
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"This collection of Peter Sturrock's wide-ranging ideas offers an intellectual joyride second to none. I especially liked his treatment of coded messages in Shakespeare's Folio. Similar eyebrow-raising insights abound!" - Gregory Benford, author of Timescape
"This is a valuable book that illuminates a number of topics that are rarely addressed by the scientific community - but should be. Each topic is puzzling and controversial, partly because the observational evidence itself is puzzling, but partly because the scientific community is - in general - unwilling to discuss it.� I am impressed by the neutral tone of the discussion in the book: each phenomenon and the evidence for it are presented dispassionately, so readers can arrive at their own judgment. For each topic, the author gives a list of articles and books for further reading.� I recommend this book to persons interested in the facts and science behind these puzzling phenomena."- J.R. (Randy) Jokipii, Regents' Professor of Planetary Sciences and Astronomy, University of Arizona
"This book is written by a renowned scientist for everyone who dismisses extra-ordinary phenomena out of hand, without knowledge of the facts. It is an eye opener and a mind opener! It reveals avaster world, beyond the reach of our current scientific paradigm." - Federico Faggin, coinventor of the microprocessor
"To the general public -- and to most scientists -- science may be seen as a beautiful well-ordered garden. However, there are some scientists who are curious to know what lies beyond the garden walls. In Late Night Thoughts About Science, renowned physicist Peter Sturrock offers us a glimpse of what lies outside the familiar garden. In fifteen short essays, he introduces us to phenomena that seem to be incompatible with the current scientific paradigm. Many mainstream scientists will be scandalized by this book. So be it." - Daniel P. Sheehan Professor of Physics, University of San Diego, San Diego, California
"Peter Sturrock is a scientist's scientist. Here is a book that pursues areas of public interest with the courage to find the truth. You have heard of patient-centered care. �Here is public-centered science. Read it not to find the truth, but find out how to find it. Bravo!" �- Wayne B. Jonas, M.D., President and CEO, Samueli Institute
"In the erudite and congenial style that befits a Stanford professor, Peter Sturrock dares to pose a series of stimulating questions that few of his colleagues have ventured to research or even acknowledge. We are fortunate that a senior researcher such as Sturrock, while recognizing the need for scientists to remain rational and appropriately skeptical, has summed up his vast scholarship in this entertaining volume, reminding us of the challenges that lie ahead and of the wonderful mysteries yet to be explored." - Jacques Vallee, Author, Scientist and Venture Capitalist
"As the island of scientific knowledge grows, so does its extended shoreline of unexplained observations. �Professor Sturrock, a highly respected astrophysicist by day, shares his nighttime thoughts to illuminate that shoreline of enigmas ranging from ball lightning and low-energy nuclear reactions to UFOs, precognition, and the Shakespeare Authorship Question. �An absolutely captivating tour!" - Harold E. Puthoff, Director of the Institute for Advanced Studies at Austin
"After a long career in physics and astrophysics as a professor at Stanford University, Peter Sturrock is still curious about nature's mysteries and, in Late Night Thoughts about Science, he looks with a sense of wonder at true mysteries in science. The purpose of this book is not that of explaining science to the general public - scientists will enjoy it along with non-scientists. This book is unique and deserves to find a large audience. It could open some minds." - Garret Moddel, Professor, Electrical, Computer & Energy Engineering, University of Colorado
"Isaac Asimov once remarked, "The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I found it!) but 'That's funny'...."� -- meaning something that evokes wonder- something that is not in accord with conventional wisdom and challenges us to learn something new. Peter Sturrock's Late Night Thoughts About Science is an entertaining but challenging parade of such topics. For anyone�with an open mind, this book will be enormously stimulating. I love this book! " - Larry Dossey, MD, Author: One Mind;�Executive Editor:�Explore
"Peter Sturrock, a noted physicist and astrophysicist, has spent some of his evening hours thinking about a few of the puzzles on the edges of science and provides concise, clear introductions to a number of them. While he does not resolve any of these anomalies, he gives enough detail to tantalize even a skeptic. It is a short, easy read, and may leave your mind somewhat more open than when you began." - Charlie Tolbert, Professor of Astronomy, University of Virginia
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.
Bread Crumbs to Follow Through the Darkening Woods
By Richard Thieme
“Late Night Thoughts About Science” by Peter A. Sturrock is a teaser as well as a repast. It's a repast because the short examples of a variety of scientific anomalies, as orthodoxy styles them, is in itself rich and rewarding. Examples of, for instance, remote viewing or clairvoyance or well-documented UFO phenomena are carefully chosen and challenge readers who bring arch-skeptical attitudes toward such things. Either his examples are invented or mistaken or even fraudulent, the reader might think ... OR, the book clearly suggests, it is facts themselves that are are damned, as Charles Fort said, by an orthodoxy which will not or cannot entertain them as incontrovertible facts. The reader who is willing to choose the latter option is at the beginning, not the end, of an intellectual adventure.
Chapter after chapter, the facts are presented carefully, quietly, matter-of-factually, until the burden is on the reader to refute them or - one intention of this short collection, I believe - use the well-chosen suggestions for further reading to explore each subject in depth and detail on his or her own.
The seventeen chapters open with four instances of unresolved issues that would be well known to scientifically trained persons - ball lightning, the Allais effect, low energy nuclear reactions, and properties of beta decay. This frames the inquiry in a way that is well within orthodox science, since these puzzles are part of the lore of orthodoxy itself and ought to be somewhat familiar. They are bread crumbs that one follows with easy acquiescence into the darkening forest of edgier facts where night is falling.
With the chapter on precognition, the text moves into what some call “paranormal” (in order to make clear they know what is normal and what is not), and that's when the reader either tosses the book away with a snort or says, hmmm, if this single account is true, what else might be true about this mysterious universe, final knowledge of which I certainly do not have, and how can I learn more? The “further reading” suggestions point the way. The segue from daylight science to nighttime reflections is seamless but as one reads about psychokinesis or crop circles, the night-time thoughts persist until the dawn and then they remain in the daylight.
Richard Feynman observed that a fact that is both a fact and anomalous is the most interesting fact because it suggests at the least that something has been overlooked or smoothed out on behalf of a coherent but false hypothesis. At the most, however, the anomalous fact might become the cornerstone of an entirely new way of framing what we know. Sturrock's lifetime of work is a testimony to that open-minded approach and where it might lead. My review on Amazon of his book “A Tale of Two Sciences” goes into much more detail about Sturrock's courage and career and the toll it takes to ask questions that respectable circle-the-wagons science prefers not to hear. He is an esteemed physicist who made major contributions to plasma physics and a thinker who has studied and asked hard serious questions of well-documented UFO phenomena, preferring to let the evidence suggest answers rather than making his prior answers distort or dismiss the evidence. If the reader's curiosity is stimulated by this collection, there is a lot more Sturrock-work to explore.
“Late Night Thoughts” is wise, thoughtful, careful, mature reflection, a good complement to his other books and evidence that at 92, Sturrock continues to find both fascination and fertile grounds for exploration in domains that others are too timid to touch.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.
Challenging thoughts about science
By Jeffrey D. Scargle
Every scientist should be exposed to the ideas put forth in this book -- which exposes some of the prejudices and assumptions lurking in modern science. The effectiveness of the scientific method is based in large part on its procedures for eliminating errors and avoiding models that do not agree with observations. The author in essence challenges scientists to objectively apply these methods to ideas that may seem contrary to accepted ideas. I believe most scientists will find, in the chapters of this book, claims they believe to be bogus -- possibly without having personally studied the purported phenomena. What then would they give as the reason for such a conclusion?
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.
Opening the Mind
By Amazon Customer
Continuing a successful sixty-year career, Peter Sturrock takes the reader on a journey that explores phenomena that may be inconsistent with current science. This remarkable book follows his previous books (A Tale of Two Sciences: Memoirs of a Dissident Scientist) and others that awaken the reader to other ways of scientific inquiry. Dr. Sturrock states that he would like the answers to to questions that have not been answered. This book opens the reader's mind and generates new ways of viewing the world.
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