{"product_id":"the-virtue-of-heresy-confessions-of-a-dissident-astronomer-9781434307279","title":"The Virtue of Heresy: Confessions of a Dissident Astronomer","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Hilton Ratcliffe\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Authorhouse UK\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Authorhouse UK\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHeresy: The declaration of opinions contrary to prevailing doctrine; opposition to dogma; unorthodox approach to science; method employed by one's intellectual enemy; individual behaviour often attracting the label \"crank\". In the course of using essential theories of science in my decades-long attempt to demystify the heavens, I became increasingly frustrated by ideas that just didn't harmonise. If we were uncovering the truth, I reasoned, then the component parts devised by disparate specialists should dovetail neatly together. But they don't. Classical Newtonian mechanics doesn't see eye-to-eye with Einstein's relativity; both are sneered at by quantum mechanics. Theories highly successful in their own right seemed when compared with one another to be describing different universes. I decided that it was scientific methodology that had gone horribly wrong. I was convinced that some of the fundamental hypotheses upon which I based my enquiry were by strict analysis utterly invalid. They did not describe reality. That was a train-smash, both for me and for the progress of science, as I understood it. This book is an account of that crisis. But fear not, this is not a high-tech science report for Ã1\/4ber-geeks. It's a storybook filled with myth and adventure. It's science unplugged.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Authorhouse UK","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47780982030487,"sku":"9781434307279","price":2400.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781434307279.webp?v=1778049669","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-virtue-of-heresy-confessions-of-a-dissident-astronomer-9781434307279","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}