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EBOOK Quantum Ten:A Story of Passion, Tragedy, Ambition, and Science

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Wydawnictwo: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780199740857
EAN: 261DBF0EEB
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Stron: 336
Data wydania: 2008
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Theoretical physics is in trouble. At least that's the impression you'd get from        reading a spate of recent books on the continued failure to resolve the 80-year-old        problem of unifying the classical and quantum worlds. The seeds of this problem were        sewn eighty years ago when a dramatic revolution in physics reached a climax at the        1927 Solvay conference in Brussels. It's the story of a rush to formalize quantum        physics, the work of just a handful of men fired by ambition, philosophical        conflicts and personal agendas.Sheilla Jones paints an intimate portrait of the key        figures who wrestled with the mysteries of the new science of the quantum, along        with a powerful supporting cast of famous (and not so famous) colleagues. The        Brussels conference was the first time so many of the "e;quantum ten"e; had been in the        same place: Albert Einstein, the lone wolf; Niels Bohr, the obsessive but        gentlemanly father figure; Max Born, the anxious hypochondriac; Werner Heisenberg,        the intensely ambitious one; Wolfgang Pauli, the sharp-tongued critic with a dark        side; Paul Dirac, the silent Englishman; Erwin Schrodinger, the enthusiastic        womanizer; Prince Louis de Broglie, the French aristocrat; and Paul Ehrenfest, who        was witness to it all. Pascual Jordan, the ardent Aryan nationalist, came        uninvited.This is the story of quantum physics that has never been told, an        equation-free investigation into the turbulent development of the new science and        its very fallible creators, including little-known details of the personal        relationship between the deeply troubled Ehrenfest and his dear friend Albert        Einstein. Jones weaves together the personal and the scientific in a        heartwarming--and heartbreaking--story of the men who struggled to create quantum        physics: a story of passion, tragedy, ambition and science.

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