John L. Casti's "Paradigms Lost" framed each Big Question as a mock jury trial with prosecution, defense, and verdict rendered. Now "Paradigms Regained" reexamines each of these questions as an appellate brief and decides whether or not the previous verdict still holds based on a decade's worth of new evidence from the scientific world's top minds.
In "Paradigms Regained," noted mathematician and researcher John Casti boldly tackles the Big Questions of science and sets our sights on a thrilling new millennium of discovery. Exploring the extraordinary "what ifs" of the natural world -- the origins of Life, the existence of extraterrestrial intelligence, our genetic destiny, the roots of Language and Learning, the limits of knowtedge -- he debates, with penetrating insight, the diverse and competing theories that exist today.
Brilliant, accessible, and totally engrossing, "Paradigms Regained" offers important new insight into contemporary scientific thought.