Quantum : Einstein, Bohr and the great debate about the nature of reality

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Quantum : Einstein, Bohr and the great debate about the nature of reality / Manjit Kumar. - London : Icon, 2014. - XVIII, 448 stron, [16] stron tablic : ilustracje ; 20 cm.

Author

Kumar Manjit. Autor

Form of Work

Książki Publikacje naukowe

Subject

Einstein, Albert (1879-1955) Bohr, Niels (1885-1962) Kwantowa teoria pola

Domain

Fizyka i astronomia Historia

Książka w języku angielskim. In this tour de force of science history, Manjit Kumar shows how the golden age of physics ignited the greatest intellectual debate of the twentieth century. Quantum theory is weird. In 1905, Albert Einstein suggested that light was a particle, not a wave, defying a century of experiments. Werner Heisenberg's uncertainty principle and Erwin Schrodinger's famous dead-and-alive cat are similarly strange. As Niels Bohr said, if you weren't shocked by quantum theory, you didn't really understand it. While "Quantum" sets the science in the context of the great upheavals of the modern age, Kumar's centrepiece is the conflict between Einstein and Bohr over the nature of reality and the soul of science. 'Bohr brainwashed a whole generation of physicists into believing that the problem had been solved', lamented the Nobel Prize-winning physicist Murray Gell-Mann. But in "Quantum", Kumar brings Einstein back to the centre of the quantum debate. "Quantum" is the essential read for anyone fascinated by this complex and thrilling story and by the band of brilliant men at its heart.

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Bibliografia na stronach 421-438. Indeks.

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