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Physics & philosophy : the revolution in modern science
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- ISBN: 9780061209192 (pbk.)
- ISBN: 0061209198 (pbk.)
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Physical Description:
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xxi, 201, 24 p. : ill. ; 21 cm. - Edition: 1st Harper Perennial Modern Classics ed.
- Publisher: New York : HarperPerennial, 2007.
Content descriptions
General Note: | Originally published: New York, N.Y. : Harper Torchbooks, 1962. |
Formatted Contents Note: | An old and a new tradition -- The history of quantum theory -- The Copenhagen interpretation of quantum theory -- Quantum theory and the roots of atomic science -- The development of philosophical ideas since Descartes in comparison with the new situation in quantum theory -- The relation of quantum theory to other parts of natural science -- The theory of relativity -- Criticism and counterproposals to the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum theory -- Quantum theory and the structure of matter -- Language and reality in modern physics -- The role of modern physics in the present development of human thinking -- Nobel lecture : the development of quantum mechanics -- About the author -- About the book -- Read on. |
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Subject: | Physics Philosophy Quantum theory |