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Mind-Bending Paradoxes

Author : Daniel Zaborowski
Publisher : Daniel Zaborowski
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 45 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (224 download)

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Download or read book Mind-Bending Paradoxes written by Daniel Zaborowski and published by Daniel Zaborowski. This book was released on with total page 45 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The e-book "Mind-Bending Paradoxes: 50 Puzzles to Challenge Your Thinking" is a comprehensive exploration of paradoxes from different fields of study. The e-book delves into logical paradoxes such as the Liar Paradox, Russell's Paradox, and the Barber Paradox, physical paradoxes like the Heat Death Paradox, and philosophical paradoxes like the Euthyphro Dilemma and the Paradox of the Knower. Additionally, the e-book covers famous paradoxes like the Ship of Theseus, the Trolley Problem, and the Monty Hall Paradox. Throughout the e-book, the reader is presented with a variety of solutions and perspectives for each Paradox which helps to deepen the understanding of these complex problems. The e-book also provides discussion questions and exercises for each paradox to encourage critical thinking and analysis. The e-book aims to provide valuable insights into the limits of human understanding and knowledge and to question the reader's beliefs and challenge their understanding of the world around them. The book concludes with a thank you note to the reader for their engagement and support and encourages them to continue exploring the world of paradoxes and other philosophical, logical, and physical concepts in the future.

Einstein's Twin

Author : Jeremy Stangroom
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781635575866
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (758 download)

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Download or read book Einstein's Twin written by Jeremy Stangroom and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-12-01 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of Einstein’s Riddle comes a collection of ingenious puzzles that will stimulate your brain while also introducing you to science’s most intriguing concepts, paradoxes, and unsolved conundrums. How can a cat be both dead and alive? Can you travel back in time to kill your own grandfather? How can a particle also be a wave? And where are the aliens? After guiding readers through warm-up logic puzzles designed to sharpen the wits, Jeremy Stangroom tackles time dilation, wave-particle duality, time travel, and quantum entanglement, along with many other scientific phenomena. Engaging your critical thinking skills while at the same time challenging your sense of reality, Einstein’s Twin is a must-have for any avid puzzler’s library.

Mathematical Fallacies and Paradoxes

Author : Bryan Bunch
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486137937
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (861 download)

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Download or read book Mathematical Fallacies and Paradoxes written by Bryan Bunch and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-10-16 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stimulating, thought-provoking analysis of the most interesting intellectual inconsistencies in mathematics, physics, and language, including being led astray by algebra (De Morgan's paradox). 1982 edition.

Surprised by Paradox

Author : Jen Pollock Michel
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
ISBN 13 : 083087092X
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book Surprised by Paradox written by Jen Pollock Michel and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2019-05-14 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a world filled with ambiguity, we want faith to act like an orderly set of truth-claims to solve the problems that life throws at us. While there are certainties in Christian faith, at the heart of the Christian story is also paradox, and Jen Pollock Michel helps readers imagine a Christian faith open to mystery. Jesus invites us to abandon the polarities of either and or in order to embrace the difficult, wondrous dissonance of and.

Puzzles and Paradoxes

Author : T. H. O’Beirne
Publisher : Courier Dover Publications
ISBN 13 : 0486246132
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (862 download)

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Download or read book Puzzles and Paradoxes written by T. H. O’Beirne and published by Courier Dover Publications. This book was released on 1984-01-01 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These marvelous, stimulating games for the mind include geometric paradoxes, cube and color arrangement puzzles, calendar paradoxes, much more. Detailed solutions prepare readers for puzzles of even greater complexity.

Do You Think What You Think You Think?

Author : Julian Baggini
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101213485
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book Do You Think What You Think You Think? written by Julian Baggini and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2007-08-28 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explore the gray areas in your gray matter with philosophical brainteasers from armchair philosopher and bestselling author of The Pig That Wants to Be Eaten, Julian Baggini. Is your brain ready for a thorough philosophical health check? Julian Baggini, the author of the international bestseller The Pig That Wants to Be Eaten, and his fellow founding editor of The Philosopher's Magazine Jeremy Stangroom have some thought-provoking questions about your thinking: Is what you believe coherent and consistent, or a jumble of contradictions? If you could design a God, what would He, She, or It be like? And how will you fare on the tricky terrain of ethics when your taboos are under the spotlight? Do You Think What You Think You Think features a dozen philosophical quizzes guaranteed to make armchair philosophers uncomfortably shift in their seats. Fun, challenging, and surprising, this book will enable you to discover the you you never knew you were.

Paradoxes

Author : Gareth Southwell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781435169968
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (699 download)

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Download or read book Paradoxes written by Gareth Southwell and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Einstein's Riddle

Author : Jeremy Stangroom
Publisher : Bloomsbury USA
ISBN 13 : 9781596916654
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (166 download)

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Download or read book Einstein's Riddle written by Jeremy Stangroom and published by Bloomsbury USA. This book was released on 2009-05-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A unique compilation of logical teasers and lateral-thinking problems designed to stretch your brainpower and strengthen your mind. Riddles, paradoxes, and conundrums have been confusing and confounding people since at least the time of the Ancient Greeks. The eponymous riddle, according to legend, was devised by Albert Einstein as a child. He claimed that only about 2% of the population would be able to work out the correct answer. There are no tricks and there is only one answer. It requires the cool application of logic to solve. And a lot of patience. Einstein's Riddle features fifty of the toughest logic problems, lateral thinking puzzles, and tests of mental agility. By turns entertaining and infuriating, the puzzles challenge our preconceptions, tell us about how we reason, and provide a rigorous intellectual workout.

The New Time Travelers: A Journey to the Frontiers of Physics

Author : David Toomey
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 039307837X
Total Pages : 397 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book The New Time Travelers: A Journey to the Frontiers of Physics written by David Toomey and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2011-02-14 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of physicists' quest to answer a mind-boggling question: How can we travel through time? Since H. G. Wells' 1895 classic The Time Machine, readers of science fiction have puzzled over the paradoxes of time travel. What would happen if a time traveler tried to change history? Would some force or law of nature prevent him? Or would his action produce a "new" history, branching away from the original?In the last decade of the twentieth century a group of theoretical physicists at the California Institute of Technology undertook a serious investigation of the possibility of pastward time travel, inspiring a serious and sustained study that engaged more than thirty physicists working at universities and institutes around the world.Many of the figures involved are familiar: Einstein, Stephen Hawking and Kip Thorne; others are names known mostly to physicists. These are the new time travelers, and this is the story of their work--a profoundly human endeavor marked by advances, retreats, and no small share of surprises. It is a fantastic journey to the frontiers of physics. Some images in the ebook are not displayed owing to permissions issues.

Good and Real

Author : Gary L. Drescher
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262042339
Total Pages : 365 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (62 download)

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Download or read book Good and Real written by Gary L. Drescher and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining a series of provocative paradoxes about consciousness, choice, ethics, and other topics, Good and Real tries to reconcile a purely mechanical view of the universe with key aspects of our subjective impressions of our own existence. In Good and Real, Gary Drescher examines a series of provocative paradoxes about consciousness, choice, ethics, quantum mechanics, and other topics, in an effort to reconcile a purely mechanical view of the universe with key aspects of our subjective impressions of our own existence. Many scientists suspect that the universe can ultimately be described by a simple (perhaps even deterministic) formalism; all that is real unfolds mechanically according to that formalism. But how, then, is it possible for us to be conscious, or to make genuine choices? And how can there be an ethical dimension to such choices? Drescher sketches computational models of consciousness, choice, and subjunctive reasoning--what would happen if this or that were to occur? --to show how such phenomena are compatible with a mechanical, even deterministic universe. Analyses of Newcomb's Problem (a paradox about choice) and the Prisoner's Dilemma (a paradox about self-interest vs. altruism, arguably reducible to Newcomb's Problem) help bring the problems and proposed solutions into focus. Regarding quantum mechanics, Drescher builds on Everett's relative-state formulation--but presenting a simplified formalism, accessible to laypersons--to argue that, contrary to some popular impressions, quantum mechanics is compatible with an objective, deterministic physical reality, and that there is no special connection between quantum phenomena and consciousness. In each of several disparate but intertwined topics ranging from physics to ethics, Drescher argues that a missing technical linchpin can make the quest for objectivity seem impossible, until the elusive technical fix is at hand.

Impossible Folding Puzzles and Other Mathematical Paradoxes

Author : Gianni A. Sarcone
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486795659
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (867 download)

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Download or read book Impossible Folding Puzzles and Other Mathematical Paradoxes written by Gianni A. Sarcone and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2014-05-25 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fun-filled, math-based puzzles include Elephants and Castles, Trianglized Kangaroo, Honest Dice and Logic Dice, Mind-reading Powers, and dozens more. Complete solutions explain the mathematical realities behind the fantastic-sounding challenges.

Forever Undecided

Author : Raymond M. Smullyan
Publisher : Knopf
ISBN 13 : 0307962466
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (79 download)

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Download or read book Forever Undecided written by Raymond M. Smullyan and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2012-07-04 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Forever Undecided is the most challenging yet of Raymond Smullyan’s puzzle collections. It is, at the same time, an introduction—ingenious, instructive, entertaining—to Gödel’s famous theorems. With all the wit and charm that have delighted readers of his previous books, Smullyan transports us once again to that magical island where knights always tell the truth and knaves always lie. Here we meet a new and amazing array of characters, visitors to the island, seeking to determine the natives’ identities. Among them: the census-taker McGregor; a philosophical-logician in search of his flighty bird-wife, Oona; and a regiment of Reasoners (timid ones, normal ones, conceited, modest, and peculiar ones) armed with the rules of propositional logic (if X is true, then so is Y). By following the Reasoners through brain-tingling exercises and adventures—including journeys into the “other possible worlds” of Kripke semantics—even the most illogical of us come to understand Gödel’s two great theorems on incompleteness and undecidability, some of their philosophical and mathematical implications, and why we, like Gödel himself, must remain Forever Undecided!

Paradox Effect

Author : Gabriel F.W. Koch
Publisher : Outskirts Press
ISBN 13 : 1478768096
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (787 download)

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Download or read book Paradox Effect written by Gabriel F.W. Koch and published by Outskirts Press. This book was released on 2015-10-27 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2554, the World is Coming to its End, unless an impossible mission through 600 years of time travel succeeds. Maternal instinct knows no boundaries, including the nano-neural-net intravenously installed in Dannia Weston’s mind to repress her identity, allowing her to perform a mission 300 years before her time. Transported to the year 1954, Dannia becomes a woman with a mid-twentieth century persona, college educated with an aptitude for mechanical invention. Due to her work during the war, she is employed by the U.S. government on a secret project. But what no one knows—including Dannia or those who sent her back to tinker with the mechanical past to reduce future pollution—is what might happen should she become emotionally involved in 1954. The 2254 science team programmed the nano-net to prevent the possibility of pregnancy, but each person reacts to strong emotional stimuli differently, and using birth control not available in 1954 is out of the question. When Dannia falls in love with Peter Hersh and becomes pregnant, her hormones erode a small section of the nano-chained network that stabilizes her new identity, triggering a mild memory rebirth...and threatening her mission and the fate of the world.

Epistemology: 50 Puzzles, Paradoxes, and Thought Experiments

Author : Kevin McCain
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000417026
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Epistemology: 50 Puzzles, Paradoxes, and Thought Experiments written by Kevin McCain and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-07-26 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this new kind of entrée to contemporary epistemology, Kevin McCain presents fifty of the field’s most important puzzles, paradoxes, and thought experiments. Assuming no familiarity with epistemology from the reader, McCain titles each case with a memorable name, describes the details of the case, explains the issue(s) to which the case is relevant, and assesses its significance. McCain also briefly reviews the key responses to the case that have been put forward, and provides a helpful list of suggested readings on the topic. Each entry is accessible, succinct, and self-contained. Epistemology: 50 Puzzles, Paradoxes, and Thought Experiments is a fantastic learning tool as well as a handy resource for anyone interested in epistemological issues. Key Features: Though concise overall, offers broad coverage of the key areas of epistemology. Describes each imaginative case directly and in a memorable way, making the cases accessible and easy to remember. Provides a list of Suggested Readings for each case, divided into General Overviews, Seminal Presentations, and Other Important Discussions.

Paradox

Author : Jim Al-Khalili
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 0552778060
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (527 download)

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Download or read book Paradox written by Jim Al-Khalili and published by Random House. This book was released on 2013 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How can a cat be both dead and alive at the same time? Why will Achilles never beat a tortoise in a race, no matter how fast he runs? And how can a person be ten years older than their twin? Throughout history, scientists have been coming up with theories and ideas that just do not seem to make sense

Immortality

Author : Stephen Cave
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 0307884937
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book Immortality written by Stephen Cave and published by Crown. This book was released on 2012-04-03 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you could live forever, would you want to? Both a fascinating look at the history of our strive for immortality and an investigation into whether living forever is really all it’s cracked up to be. A fascinating work of popular philosophy and history that both enlightens and entertains, Stephen Cave investigates whether it just might be possible to live forever and whether we should want to. He also makes a powerful argument that it’s our very preoccupation with defying mortality that drives civilization. Central to this book is the metaphor of a mountaintop where one can find the Immortals. Since the dawn of humanity, everyone – whether they know it or not—has been trying to climb that mountain. But there are only four paths up its treacherous slope, and there have only ever been four paths. Throughout history, people have wagered everything on their choice of the correct path, and fought wars against those who’ve chosen differently. In drawing back the curtain on what compels humans to “keep on keeping on,” Cave engages the reader in a number of mind-bending thought experiments. He teases out the implications of each immortality gambit, asking, for example, how long a person would live if they did manage to acquire a perfectly disease-free body. Or what would happen if a super-being tried to round up the atomic constituents of all who’ve died in order to resurrect them. Or what our loved ones would really be doing in heaven if it does exist. We’re confronted with a series of brain-rattling questions: What would happen if tomorrow humanity discovered that there is no life but this one? Would people continue to please their boss, vie for the title of Year’s Best Salesman? Would three-hundred-year projects still get started? If the four paths up the Mount of the Immortals lead nowhere—if there is no getting up to the summit—is there still reason to live? And can civilization survive? Immortality is a deeply satisfying book, as optimistic about the human condition as it is insightful about the true arc of history.

Mad About Modern Physics

Author : Franklin Potter
Publisher : Wiley
ISBN 13 : 0471689300
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (716 download)

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Download or read book Mad About Modern Physics written by Franklin Potter and published by Wiley. This book was released on 2004-12-03 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More mind-bending fun in physics The sequel to the popular Mad About Physics, Mad About Modern Physics promises endless hours of entertaining, challenging fun. With detailed answers to hundreds of questions ("Are fluorescent lights dangerous to your health?", "What is a fuel cell?"), the book is also a treasure trove of fun science trivia. Featuring diagrams and illustrations throughout, this fascinating physics compendium will educate and captivate students, teachers, and science buffs alike. FRANKLIN POTTER, Ph.D., is a retired physicist from the University of California at Irvine. He continues to conduct research in elementary particle physics and cosmology, as well as consult in physics education. CHRISTOPHER JARGODZKI, Ph.D., is Professor of Physics at Central Missouri State University. He is also founder and director of Center for Cooperative Phenomena. He was born and raised in Poland, and received his Ph.D. in quantum field theory from the University of California at Irvine.