Einstein S Clocks Poincar S Maps
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Einstein S Clocks Poincar S Maps
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Author : Peter Galison
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2004
Einstein S Clocks Poincar S Maps written by Peter Galison and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Horology categories.
In May 1905, Einstein published his theory of relativity, changing time forever. This title is a dramatic account of the quest to synchronize time that culminated in the revolutionary theory. As Peter Galison argues, relativity was borne of urgent practical necessity. Clocks and trains, telegraphs and colonial conquest: the challenges of the late 19th century provided an indispensable real-world background to the theoretical breakthrough. Europe's burgeoning rail network. Only a century ago, the continent had hundred of time zones and no universal system for synchronizing them. Given that local time could vary from town to town, scheduling rail services was hard - but vital, not least to stop trains from colliding as they hurtled in opposite directions along singles tracks. In his role as president of the French Bureau of Longitude - a remit of which was to map colonial Africa - Henri Poincare grappled with a similar issue. Synchronized clocks, set by telegraph signal from Paris, were necessary to determine longitude and provide the precise coordinates his cartographers needed. to tell the story of these two giants - whose concrete preoccupations engaged them in a silent race towards a theory that overturned 200 years' received thinking.
Einstein S Clocks Poincare S Maps George B Pegram Lecture Series
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2006
Einstein S Clocks Poincare S Maps George B Pegram Lecture Series written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with categories.
In the standard picture of the history of special relativity, Einstein's reformulation of simultaneity is considered a quasi-philosophical intervention, a move made possible by his *dis*-connection from the standard physics and technology of the day. Meanwhile, Einstein's engagement at the Patent Office enters the story as a lowly day job, irrelevant to his work on relativity. I argue, on the contrary, that Einstein's patent work located him squarely in the middle of a wealth of technological developments, cultural discussions about the meaning of time, and important patents that accompanied the coordination of clocks. And Henri Poincare, far from being lost exclusively in the far reaches of abstract mathematics, was at the same time profoundly involved with the use of precision coordinated clocks for long-distance longitude determination. Indeed, at a crucial moment in the development of Poincare's own thoughts on simultaneity, he was presiding of over the Paris Bureau of Longitude. By understanding the history of coordinated clocks, Einstein's and Poincare's work in relativistic physics shines in a very different light: the "modern" of "modern physics" stood was the intersection of physics, technology, and philosophy.
The Physics Of Wall Street
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Author : James Owen Weatherall
language : en
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Release Date : 2013
The Physics Of Wall Street written by James Owen Weatherall and has been published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with Business & Economics categories.
A young scholar tells the story of the physicists and mathematicians who created the models that have become the basis of modern finance and argues that these models are the "solution" to--not the source of--our current economic woes.
A Tenth Of A Second
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Author : Jimena Canales
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2010-01-15
A Tenth Of A Second written by Jimena Canales and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-01-15 with Technology & Engineering categories.
In the late fifteenth century, clocks acquired minute hands. A century later, second hands appeared. But it wasn’t until the 1850s that instruments could recognize a tenth of a second, and, once they did, the impact on modern science and society was profound. Revealing the history behind this infinitesimal interval, A Tenth of a Second sheds new light on modernity and illuminates the work of important thinkers of the last two centuries. Tracing debates about the nature of time, causality, and free will, as well as the introduction of modern technologies—telegraphy, photography, cinematography—Jimena Canales locates the reverberations of this “perceptual moment” throughout culture. Once scientists associated the tenth of a second with the speed of thought, they developed reaction time experiments with lasting implications for experimental psychology, physiology, and optics. Astronomers and physicists struggled to control the profound consequences of results that were a tenth of a second off. And references to the interval were part of a general inquiry into time, consciousness, and sensory experience that involved rethinking the contributions of Descartes and Kant. Considering its impact on much longer time periods and featuring appearances by Henri Bergson, Walter Benjamin, and Albert Einstein, among others, A Tenth of a Second is ultimately an important contribution to history and a novel perspective on modernity.
The Dilemmas Of An Upright Man
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Author : J. L. Heilbron
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2000-09-01
The Dilemmas Of An Upright Man written by J. L. Heilbron and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-09-01 with Science categories.
In this moving and eloquent portrait, Heilbron describes how the founder of quantum theory rose to the pinnacle of German science. He shows how Planck suffered morally and intellectually as his lifelong habit of service to his country and to physics was confronted by the realities of World War I and the brutalities of the Third Reich.
Image And Logic
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Author : Peter Galison
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 1997-10
Image And Logic written by Peter Galison and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997-10 with History categories.
Engages with the impact of modern technology on experimental physicists. This study reveals how the increasing scale and complexity of apparatus has distanced physicists from the very science which drew them into experimenting, and has fragmented microphysics into different technical traditions.
History Of The Hour
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Author : Gerhard Dohrn-van Rossum
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 1996
History Of The Hour written by Gerhard Dohrn-van Rossum and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with History categories.
This text provides an overview of the history of the mechanical clock and its effects on European society from the late Middle Ages to the industrial revolution. The book provides a discussion of how mechanical clocks functioned in cities and dispels many
The Quantum Moment
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Author : Robert P Crease
language : en
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Release Date : 2015-12-01
The Quantum Moment written by Robert P Crease and has been published by National Geographic Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-12-01 with Science categories.
"A very fun way to learn about where quantum physics comes from and the strange, even astonishing places it has gone." —Peter Galison, Harvard University, author of Einstein’s Clocks, Poincaré’s Maps From multiverses and quantum leaps to Schrödinger’s cat and time travel, quantum mechanics has irreversibly shaped the popular imagination. Entertainers and writers from Lady Gaga to David Foster Wallace take advantage of its associations and nuances. In The Quantum Moment, philosopher Robert P. Crease and physicist Alfred Scharff Goldhaber recount the fascinating story of how the quantum jumped from physics into popular culture, with brief explorations of the underlying math and physics concepts and descriptions of the fiery disputes among figures including Einstein, Schrödinger, and Niels Bohr. Understanding and appreciating quantum imagery, its uses and abuses, is part of what it means to be an educated person in the twenty-first century. The Quantum Moment serves as an indispensable guide.
Einstein And The Quantum
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Author : A. Douglas Stone
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2015-10-06
Einstein And The Quantum written by A. Douglas Stone and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-10-06 with Science categories.
The untold story of Albert Einstein's role as the father of quantum theory Einstein and the Quantum reveals for the first time the full significance of Albert Einstein's contributions to quantum theory. Einstein famously rejected quantum mechanics, observing that God does not play dice. But, in fact, he thought more about the nature of atoms, molecules, and the emission and absorption of light—the core of what we now know as quantum theory—than he did about relativity. A compelling blend of physics, biography, and the history of science, Einstein and the Quantum shares the untold story of how Einstein—not Max Planck or Niels Bohr—was the driving force behind early quantum theory. It paints a vivid portrait of the iconic physicist as he grappled with the apparently contradictory nature of the atomic world, in which its invisible constituents defy the categories of classical physics, behaving simultaneously as both particle and wave. And it demonstrates how Einstein's later work on the emission and absorption of light, and on atomic gases, led directly to Erwin Schrödinger's breakthrough to the modern form of quantum mechanics. The book sheds light on why Einstein ultimately renounced his own brilliant work on quantum theory, due to his deep belief in science as something objective and eternal.
Intelligent Love
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Author : Marga Vicedo
language : en
Publisher: Beacon Press
Release Date : 2021-03-23
Intelligent Love written by Marga Vicedo and has been published by Beacon Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-03-23 with Psychology categories.
Winner of the History of Science Society's 2022 Davis Prize How one mother challenged the medical establishment and misconceptions about autistic children and their parents In the early 1960s, Massachusetts writer and homemaker Clara Park and her husband took their 3-year-old daughter, Jessy, to a specialist after noticing that she avoided connection with others. Following the conventional wisdom of the time, the psychiatrist diagnosed Jessy with autism and blamed Clara for Jessy’s isolation. Experts claimed Clara was the prototypical “refrigerator mother,” a cold, intellectual parent who starved her children of the natural affection they needed to develop properly. Refusing to accept this, Clara decided to document her daughter’s behaviors and the family’s engagement with her. In 1967, she published her groundbreaking memoir challenging the refrigerator mother theory and carefully documenting Jessy’s development. Clara’s insights and advocacy encouraged other parents to seek education and support for their autistic children. Meanwhile, Jessy would work hard to expand her mother’s world, and ours. Drawing on previously unexamined archival sources and firsthand interviews, science historian Marga Vicedo illuminates the story of how Clara Park and other parents fought against medical and popular attitudes toward autism while presenting a rich account of major scientific developments in the history of autism in the US. Intelligent Love is a fierce defense of a mother’s right to love intelligently, the value of parents’ firsthand knowledge about their children, and an individual’s right to be valued by society.