Authors: Georges Charpak, Henri Broch, Bart K. Holland
ISBN-13: 9780801878671, ISBN-10: 0801878675
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Date Published: March 2004
Edition: New Edition
Georges Charpak is a physicist at the European Center for Particle Physics (CERN) in Geneva and winner of the 1992 Nobel Prize in physics. Henri Broch teaches physics and zetetics, the scientific investigation of paranormal phenomena, at the University of NiceSophia Antipolis.
"Short and highly readable. It tells good stories about human foolishness masquerading as science. It offers useful assistance to citizens trying to tell the difference between sense and nonsense... Charpak and Broch have done a fine job, sweeping out the money-changers from the temple of science and exposing their tricks." -- New York Review of Books
"One of those books I wish I'd written." -- James Randi, Physics Today
Translator's preface | ||
Prologue : sorcerers and scientists | ||
Ch. 1 | The first steps in the initiation | 1 |
Ch. 2 | Amazing coincidences | 45 |
Ch. 3 | Let's play detective | 71 |
Ch. 4 | The right to dreams and clarity | 113 |
Ch. 5 | A new millennium dawns | 123 |
App | How to calculate probabilities | 133 |