Imagined world

Author: Freeman Dyson
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Publish Date: 2001-01-01
Features: This book is one of the "Harvard Popular Science Translation Series." It tells the story of an extraordinary woman who combined the talents of medical research and poetry. Joan Goodfellow's book and my book have nothing in common except for the similarity in their titles. Freeman Dyson is a theoretical physicist at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton University, renowned for his research in quantum electrodynamics. However, he is even more famous for his creative thoughts on space travel and extraterrestrial civilizations. He wrote about these ideas and topics in his works. Inheriting the tradition of novelist H.G. Wells and biologist J.B.S. Haldane, he raised questions about where science and technology will take humanity in the next century while also warning humanity. Imagined Worlds is another powerful work by him after he completed Cosmos and Infinite in All Directions.