This book entertainingly traces the history of physics from the observations of the earlyGreeks through the discoveries of Galileo and Newton to the dazzling theories of such scientists as Planck, Einstein, Bohr, and Bohm. This humanized view of science opens up the mind-stretching visions of how quantum mechanics, God, human thought, and will are related, and provides profound implications for our understanding of the nature of reality and our relationship to the cosmos.
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This book entertainingly traces the history of physics from the observations of the earlyGreeks through the discoveries of Galileo and Newton to the dazzling theories of such scientists as Planck, Einstein, Bohr, and Bohm. This humanized view of science opens up the mind-stretching visions of how quantum mechanics, God, human thought, and will are related, and provides profound implications for our understanding of the nature of reality and our relationship to the cosmos.
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Paperback. Etat : Very Good. Discover how quantum mechanics shattered classical certainty and turned our understanding of reality, consciousness, and the cosmos inside out. This book entertainingly traces the history of physics from the observations of the earlyGreeks through the discoveries of Galileo and Newton to the dazzling theories of such scientists as Planck, Einstein, Bohr, and Bohm. This humanized view of science opens up the mind-stretching visions of how quantum mechanics, God, human thought, and will are related, and provides profound implications for our understanding of the nature of reality and our relationship to the cosmos. Fred Alan Wolf guides the reader through the foundational paradoxes of modern physics, tracing how Werner Heisenberg, Erwin Schrödinger, and their peers dismantled the clockwork universe. The text illuminates how every act of observation disturbs atomic phenomena, introducing the bizarre wave-particle duality that underpins quantum theory. History of Science: Follow the evolution of physical thought from Aristotle's early arguments on motion to the crisis of the ultraviolet catastrophe, where Max Planck discovered that heated matter radiates energy in discrete lumps. Theoretical Physics: Watch how the double-slit experiment reveals the wave-particle paradox, demonstrating that electrons fired one by one still produce interference patterns on a detection screen. Case Studies: Examine famous thought experiments like Schrödinger's cat in a steel cage, illustrating how an unobserved system remains suspended between multiple possibilities until an observer intervenes. Popular Science: Explore mind-bending concepts including the paradox of Wigner's friend and Hugh Everett's many-worlds hypothesis, where every quantum interaction branches into parallel universes. N° de réf. du vendeur CIN0060963107VG
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