Weird Scientists The Creators Of Quantum Physics
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Weird Scientists The Creators Of Quantum Physics
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Author : Jeffrey Strickland
language : en
Publisher: Lulu.com
Release Date : 2011-09-04
Weird Scientists The Creators Of Quantum Physics written by Jeffrey Strickland and has been published by Lulu.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-09-04 with History categories.
Weird Scientists is a sequel to Men of Manhattan. As I wrote the latter about the nuclear physicists who brought in the era of nuclear power, quantum mechanics (or quantum physics) was unavoidable. Many of the contributors to the science of splitting the atom were also contributors to quantum mechanics. Atomic physics, particle physics, quantum physics, and even relativity are all interrelated. This book is about the men and women who established the science that shook the foundations of classical physics, removed determinism from measurement, and created alternative worlds of reality. The book introduces fundamental concepts of quantum mechanics, roughly in the order they were discovered, as a launching point for describing the scientist and the work that brought forth the concepts.
The Strange World Of Quantum Mechanics
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Author : Daniel F. Styer
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2000-02-24
The Strange World Of Quantum Mechanics written by Daniel F. Styer and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-02-24 with Science categories.
An exceptionally accessible, accurate and non-technical introduction to the core concepts of quantum mechanics.
Beyond Weird
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Author : Philip Ball
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2020-10-14
Beyond Weird written by Philip Ball 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 2020-10-14 with Science categories.
“Anyone who is not shocked by quantum theory has not understood it.” Since Niels Bohr said this many years ago, quantum mechanics has only been getting more shocking. We now realize that it’s not really telling us that “weird” things happen out of sight, on the tiniest level, in the atomic world: rather, everything is quantum. But if quantum mechanics is correct, what seems obvious and right in our everyday world is built on foundations that don’t seem obvious or right at all—or even possible. An exhilarating tour of the contemporary quantum landscape, Beyond Weird is a book about what quantum physics really means—and what it doesn’t. Science writer Philip Ball offers an up-to-date, accessible account of the quest to come to grips with the most fundamental theory of physical reality, and to explain how its counterintuitive principles underpin the world we experience. Over the past decade it has become clear that quantum physics is less a theory about particles and waves, uncertainty and fuzziness, than a theory about information and knowledge—about what can be known, and how we can know it. Discoveries and experiments over the past few decades have called into question the meanings and limits of space and time, cause and effect, and, ultimately, of knowledge itself. The quantum world Ball shows us isn’t a different world. It is our world, and if anything deserves to be called “weird,” it’s us.
Helgoland
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Author : Carlo Rovelli
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2022-05-24
Helgoland written by Carlo Rovelli and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-05-24 with Science categories.
Named a Best Book of 2021 by the Financial Times and a Best Science Book of 2021 by The Guardian “Rovelli is a genius and an amazing communicator… This is the place where science comes to life.” ―Neil Gaiman “One of the warmest, most elegant and most lucid interpreters to the laity of the dazzling enigmas of his discipline...[a] momentous book” ―John Banville, The Wall Street Journal A startling new look at quantum theory, from the New York Times bestselling author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics, The Order of Time, and Anaximander. One of the world's most renowned theoretical physicists, Carlo Rovelli has entranced millions of readers with his singular perspective on the cosmos. In Helgoland, he examines the enduring enigma of quantum theory. The quantum world Rovelli describes is as beautiful as it is unnerving. Helgoland is a treeless island in the North Sea where the twenty-three-year-old Werner Heisenberg made the crucial breakthrough for the creation of quantum mechanics, setting off a century of scientific revolution. Full of alarming ideas (ghost waves, distant objects that seem to be magically connected, cats that appear both dead and alive), quantum physics has led to countless discoveries and technological advancements. Today our understanding of the world is based on this theory, yet it is still profoundly mysterious. As scientists and philosophers continue to fiercely debate the meaning of the theory, Rovelli argues that its most unsettling contradictions can be explained by seeing the world as fundamentally made of relationships rather than substances. We and everything around us exist only in our interactions with one another. This bold idea suggests new directions for thinking about the structure of reality and even the nature of consciousness. Rovelli makes learning about quantum mechanics an almost psychedelic experience. Shifting our perspective once again, he takes us on a riveting journey through the universe so we can better comprehend our place in it.
What Is Real
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Author : Adam Becker
language : en
Publisher: Basic Books
Release Date : 2018-03-20
What Is Real written by Adam Becker and has been published by Basic Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-03-20 with Science categories.
"A thorough, illuminating exploration of the most consequential controversy raging in modern science." --New York Times Book Review An Editor's Choice, New York Times Book Review Longlisted for PEN/E.O. Wilson Prize for Literary Science Writing Longlisted for Goodreads Choice Award Every physicist agrees quantum mechanics is among humanity's finest scientific achievements. But ask what it means, and the result will be a brawl. For a century, most physicists have followed Niels Bohr's solipsistic and poorly reasoned Copenhagen interpretation. Indeed, questioning it has long meant professional ruin, yet some daring physicists, such as John Bell, David Bohm, and Hugh Everett, persisted in seeking the true meaning of quantum mechanics. What Is Real? is the gripping story of this battle of ideas and the courageous scientists who dared to stand up for truth. "An excellent, accessible account." --Wall Street Journal "Splendid. . . . Deeply detailed research, accompanied by charming anecdotes about the scientists." --Washington Post
Einstein Top Truths And Lies
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Author : Waldon Volpiceli
language : en
Publisher: Babelcube Inc.
Release Date : 2020-08-10
Einstein Top Truths And Lies written by Waldon Volpiceli and has been published by Babelcube Inc. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-08-10 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Was Einstein Religious or Atheist? Did Einstein help build the atomic bomb? (in this book you will find the backstage pertaining to the arms race between the Allies and the Nazis for obtaining the atomic bomb). Did Einstein create the theory of relativity or was it his wife, Mileva Maric? Was Einstein a Communist? Was he autistic? All the truths and lies about Albert Einstein revealed in this book.
The Strangest Man
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Author : Graham Farmelo
language : en
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Release Date : 2009-01-22
The Strangest Man written by Graham Farmelo and has been published by Faber & Faber this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-01-22 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
'A monumental achievement - one of the great scientific biographies.' Michael Frayn The Strangest Man is the Costa Biography Award-winning account of Paul Dirac, the famous physicist sometimes called the British Einstein. He was one of the leading pioneers of the greatest revolution in twentieth-century science: quantum mechanics. The youngest theoretician ever to win the Nobel Prize for Physics, he was also pathologically reticent, strangely literal-minded and legendarily unable to communicate or empathize. Through his greatest period of productivity, his postcards home contained only remarks about the weather.Based on a previously undiscovered archive of family papers, Graham Farmelo celebrates Dirac's massive scientific achievement while drawing a compassionate portrait of his life and work. Farmelo shows a man who, while hopelessly socially inept, could manage to love and sustain close friendship.The Strangest Man is an extraordinary and moving human story, as well as a study of one of the most exciting times in scientific history. 'A wonderful book . . . Moving, sometimes comic, sometimes infinitely sad, and goes to the roots of what we mean by truth in science.' Lord Waldegrave, Daily Telegraph
Linkedin Memoirs
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Author : Jeffrey Strickland
language : en
Publisher: Lulu.com
Release Date : 2014-11-30
Linkedin Memoirs written by Jeffrey Strickland and has been published by Lulu.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-11-30 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
LinkedIn operates the world's largest professional network on the Internet with more than 332 million members in over 200 countries and territories. Dr. Strickland been a LinkedIn Premium member since November 2, 2010. At the time of this publication he has 4,250 followers who view his posts on a regular basis. This book is a collection of his most popular post for the year 2014. I have posted articles on a variety of topics, usually something I am quite passionate about, like professionalism, etiquette, analytical science, leadership, and so on. Post titles include, ""LinkedIn Random Acts of Kindness,"" ""Three Things Leaders Must Do,"" ""The Last Full Measure of Devotion,"" ""To Teach or not to Teach,"" and ""If You Hate Probability Theory, You are in Good Company."" I enjoy the interaction that I have with over 4,000 connections from 59 countries, if I include the Republic of Texas. This book is for them, but also for those friends and colleagues who do not frequent the network as much as I do.
Biocentrism
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Author : Robert Lanza
language : en
Publisher: BenBella Books
Release Date : 2010-05-18
Biocentrism written by Robert Lanza and has been published by BenBella Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-05-18 with Body, Mind & Spirit categories.
Robert Lanza is one of the most respected scientists in the world — a US News & World Report cover story called him a “genius" and a “renegade thinker," even likening him to Einstein. Lanza has teamed with Bob Berman, the most widely read astronomer in the world, to produce Biocentrism, a revolutionary new view of the universe. Every now and then a simple yet radical idea shakes the very foundations of knowledge. The startling discovery that the world was not flat challenged and ultimately changed the way people perceived themselves and their relationship with the world. For most humans of the 15th century, the notion of Earth as ball of rock was nonsense. The whole of Western, natural philosophy is undergoing a sea change again, increasingly being forced upon us by the experimental findings of quantum theory, and at the same time, towards doubt and uncertainty in the physical explanations of the universe's genesis and structure. Biocentrism completes this shift in worldview, turning the planet upside down again with the revolutionary view that life creates the universe instead of the other way around. In this paradigm, life is not an accidental byproduct of the laws of physics. Biocetnrism takes the reader on a seemingly improbable but ultimately inescapable journey through a foreign universe—our own—from the viewpoints of an acclaimed biologist and a leading astronomer. Switching perspective from physics to biology unlocks the cages in which Western science has unwittingly managed to confine itself. Biocentrism will shatter the reader's ideas of life--time and space, and even death. At the same time it will release us from the dull worldview of life being merely the activity of an admixture of carbon and a few other elements; it suggests the exhilarating possibility that life is fundamentally immortal. The 21st century is predicted to be the Century of Biology, a shift from the previous century dominated by physics. It seems fitting, then, to begin the century by turning the universe outside-in and unifying the foundations of science with a simple idea discovered by one of the leading life-scientists of our age. Biocentrism awakens in readers a new sense of possibility, and is full of so many shocking new perspectives that the reader will never see reality the same way again.