{"id":9286,"date":"2011-10-28T05:52:26","date_gmt":"2011-10-28T09:52:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/etherwave.wordpress.com\/?p=9286"},"modified":"2011-10-28T05:52:26","modified_gmt":"2011-10-28T09:52:26","slug":"available-now-in-centaurus-my-review-of-helge-kraghs-higher-speculations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rational-action.com\/etherwave\/2011\/10\/28\/available-now-in-centaurus-my-review-of-helge-kraghs-higher-speculations\/","title":{"rendered":"Available Now in Centaurus: My Review of Helge Kragh&#8217;s Higher Speculations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/etherwave.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/10\/kragh.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-9287\" title=\"kragh\" src=\"http:\/\/etherwave.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/10\/kragh.jpg?w=204&#038;resize=204%2C300\" alt=\"\" width=\"204\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t believe I have permission to republish here, but my review of Helge Kragh&#8217;s book,\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oup.com\/us\/catalog\/general\/subject\/HistoryOther\/HistoryofScience\/?view=usa&amp;ci=9780199599882\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Higher Speculations: Grand Theories and Failed Revolutions in Physics and Cosmology <\/a><\/em>is available in <em>Centaurus <\/em>53 (2011): 342-343, or online <a href=\"http:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1111\/j.1600-0498.2011.00241.x\/abstract\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a> (paywall, but if your library, like mine, doesn&#8217;t subscribe, you can see a scan of about 1\/3 of the review for free).<\/p>\n<p>I was very happy to get the chance to review the book, because Kragh&#8217;s industriousness, his technical understanding, and his interest in a wide array of subjects make him one of the most exciting historians of physics working today. \u00a0My review makes quite a bit of the fact that the volume feels like more of an outline of a future history than a filled-out history along the lines of Kragh&#8217;s <em><a href=\"http:\/\/press.princeton.edu\/titles\/5925.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Cosmology and Controversy<\/a> <\/em>(1996). \u00a0So it contains a lot of discussion of how these sketches could be pulled together into a more synthetic account. \u00a0I would like to repeat a point I make at the end of the review, which is that this is intended more in the vein of engagement than criticism. \u00a0If you&#8217;re interested in putting the latest multi-verse scenarios into the context of the longstanding history of physical speculation, this is your book.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t believe I have permission to republish here, but my review of Helge Kragh&#8217;s book,\u00a0Higher Speculations: Grand Theories and Failed Revolutions in Physics and Cosmology is available in Centaurus 53 (2011): 342-343, or online here (paywall, but if your library, like mine, doesn&#8217;t subscribe, you can see a scan of about 1\/3 of the<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-right\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Continue Reading&#8230; 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