Download or read book Le traiettorie della fisica azzurro written by Ugo Amaldi and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Encounters with Einstein written by Werner Heisenberg and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 1989-10-21 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In nine essays and lectures composed in the last years of his life, Werner Heisenberg offers a bold appraisal of the scientific method in the twentieth century--and relates its philosophical impact on contemporary society and science to the particulars of molecular biology, astrophysics, and related disciplines. Are the problems we define and pursue freely chosen according to our conscious interests? Or does the historical process itself determine which phenomena merit examination at any one time? Heisenberg discusses these issues in the most far-ranging philosophical terms, while illustrating them with specific examples.

Download or read book Beyond Uncertainty written by David C. Cassidy and published by Bellevue Literary Press. This book was released on 2010-04-01 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Exhaustively detailed yet eminently readable, this is an important book."Publishers Weekly, starred review "Cassidy does not so much exculpate Heisenberg as explain him, with a transparency that makes this biography a pleasure to read."Los Angeles Times "Well crafted and readable . . . [Cassidy] provides a nuanced and compelling account of Heisenberg's life."The Harvard Book Review In 1992, David C. Cassidy’s groundbreaking biography of Werner Heisenberg, Uncertainty, was published to resounding acclaim from scholars and critics. Michael Frayn, in the Playbill of the Broadway production of Copenhagen, referred to it as one of his main sources and “the standard work in English.” Richard Rhodes (The Making of the Atom Bomb) called it “the definitive biography of a great and tragic physicist,” and the Los Angeles Times praised it as “an important book. Cassidy has sifted the record and brilliantly detailed Heisenberg’s actions.” No book that has appeared since has rivaled Uncertainty, now out of print, for its depth and rich detail of the life, times, and science of this brilliant and controversial figure of twentieth-century physics. Since the fall of the Soviet Union, long-suppressed information has emerged on Heisenberg’s role in the Nazi atomic bomb project. In Beyond Uncertainty, Cassidy interprets this and other previously unknown material within the context of his vast research and tackles the vexing questions of a scientist’s personal responsibility and guilt when serving an abhorrent military regime. David C. Cassidy is the author of J. Robert Oppenheimer and the American Century, Einstein and Our World, and Uncertainty.

Download or read book Heisenberg s 1958 Weltformel and the Roots of Post Empirical Physics written by Alexander S. Blum and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-05-14 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents the first detailed account of Werner Heisenberg’s failed attempt to find a theory of everything in the autumn of his career. It further investigates what we can learn from his failure in relation to the search for a final theory of physics, an endeavour that continues to define research in fundamental physics to this day. Thereby it provides the first historically informed contribution to the current debate on post-empirical physics and the state of particle physics.

Download or read book Einstein and Heisenberg written by Konrad Kleinknecht and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-02-13 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a fascinating account of two great scientists of the 20th century: Einstein and Heisenberg, discoverers, respectively, of the theory of relativity and quantum mechanics. It connects the history of modern physics to the life stories of these two extraordinary physicists.These discoveries laid the foundation of modern physics, without which our digitized world of computers, satellites, and innovative materials would not be possible. This book also describes in comprehensible terms the complicated science underlying the two discoveries.The twin biography highlights the parallels and differences of these two luminaries, showing how their work shaped the 20th century into the century of physics.

Download or read book Galileo Unbound written by David D. Nolte and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-07-12 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Galileo Unbound traces the journey that brought us from Galileo's law of free fall to today's geneticists measuring evolutionary drift, entangled quantum particles moving among many worlds, and our lives as trajectories traversing a health space with thousands of dimensions. Remarkably, common themes persist that predict the evolution of species as readily as the orbits of planets or the collapse of stars into black holes. This book tells the history of spaces of expanding dimension and increasing abstraction and how they continue today to give new insight into the physics of complex systems. Galileo published the first modern law of motion, the Law of Fall, that was ideal and simple, laying the foundation upon which Newton built the first theory of dynamics. Early in the twentieth century, geometry became the cause of motion rather than the result when Einstein envisioned the fabric of space-time warped by mass and energy, forcing light rays to bend past the Sun. Possibly more radical was Feynman's dilemma of quantum particles taking all paths at once — setting the stage for the modern fields of quantum field theory and quantum computing. Yet as concepts of motion have evolved, one thing has remained constant, the need to track ever more complex changes and to capture their essence, to find patterns in the chaos as we try to predict and control our world.

Download or read book On Modern Physics By Werner Heisenberg Max Born Erwin Schr dinger Pierre Auger English Translation of Sulla Fisica Moderna by M Goodman and J W Binns written by PHYSICS. and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Heisenberg s 1958 Weltformel and the Roots of Post empirical Physics written by Alexander Simon Blum and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents the first detailed account of Werner Heisenberg's failed attempt to find a theory of everything in the autumn of his career. It further investigates what we can learn from his failure in relation to the search for a final theory of physics, an endeavour that continues to define research in fundamental physics to this day. Thereby it provides the first historically informed contribution to the current debate on post-empirical physics and the state of particle physics.

Download or read book Galileo s Pendulum written by Roger G. Newton and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2005-10-31 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bored during Mass at the cathedral in Pisa, the seventeen-year-old Galileo regarded the chandelier swinging overhead—and remarked, to his great surprise, that the lamp took as many beats to complete an arc when hardly moving as when it was swinging widely. Galileo’s Pendulum tells the story of what this observation meant, and of its profound consequences for science and technology. The principle of the pendulum’s swing—a property called isochronism—marks a simple yet fundamental system in nature, one that ties the rhythm of time to the very existence of matter in the universe. Roger Newton sets the stage for Galileo’s discovery with a look at biorhythms in living organisms and at early calendars and clocks—contrivances of nature and culture that, however adequate in their time, did not meet the precise requirements of seventeenth-century science and navigation. Galileo’s Pendulum recounts the history of the newly evolving time pieces—from marine chronometers to atomic clocks—based on the pendulum as well as other mechanisms employing the same physical principles, and explains the Newtonian science underlying their function. The book ranges nimbly from the sciences of sound and light to the astonishing intersection of the pendulum’s oscillations and quantum theory, resulting in new insight into the make-up of the material universe. Covering topics from the invention of time zones to Isaac Newton’s equations of motion, from Pythagoras’s theory of musical harmony to Michael Faraday’s field theory and the development of quantum electrodynamics, Galileo’s Pendulum is an authoritative and engaging tour through time of the most basic all-pervading system in the world.

Download or read book Uncertainty written by David Lindley and published by Anchor Canada. This book was released on 2008 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An in-depth analysis of the uncertainty principle, first introduced by German physicist Werner Heisenberg in 1927, discusses the birth, evolution, and impact of this important idea, as well as the clash in personalities and ideas that it provoked between Einstein's theories and the new generations of physicists who espoused quantum theory. Reprint. 20,000 first printing.

Download or read book Inner Exile written by Elisabeth Heisenberg and published by Birkhäuser. This book was released on 1984 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the years between 1924 and 1927 some of the deepest riddles that nature posed to us were solved: how to under stand and describe the structure of atoms and, therefore, the structure and behavior of matter, since all matter is made of atoms. It was a truly revolutionary step, because it required the abandonment of many old concepts and pre judices and the creation of new concepts and a new language called quantum mechanics, in order to understand and describe what happens within and between the atoms. A new subtle reality was discovered to exist in this realm, on which the ordinary reality of our daily life is based. The new insights were achieved not by any single individual, but by a small group from different nations, with Niels Bohr in Copenhagen as the most powerful leader . Most of these people were very young, in their twenties, whereas Bohr was in his forties at that time. It was a little group of enthu siastic young spirits, well aware of being at the front line of knowledge, of shedding light on a previously murky and contradictory situation. Never before have so few con tributed so much insight into the workings of nature in such a short time. One of the young men in this group was Werner Heisenberg. He was perhaps the most active and creative among them, the one who provided the most important ideas and formulations.

Download or read book On Modern Physics written by Werner Heisenberg and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Physics and Beyond written by Werner Heisenberg and published by HarperCollins Publishers. This book was released on 1971 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Uncertainty written by David C. Cassidy and published by W. H. Freeman. This book was released on 1993-08-15 with total page 688 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Werner Heisenberg's genius and his place at the forefront of modern physics are unquestioned. His decision to remain in Germany throughout the Third Reich and his role in Hitler's atomic bomb project are still topics of heated debate. UNCERTAINTY is David Cassidy's compelling portrait of this brilliant, ambitious, and controversial scientist. It is the definitive Heisenberg biography, as well as a striking evocation of the development of quantum physics, the rise of Nazism, and the dawn of the atomic age.

Download or read book Heisenberg and the Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics written by Kristian Camilleri and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-09-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Werner Heisenberg was a pivotal figure in the development of quantum mechanics in the 1920s, and also one of its most insightful interpreters. Together with Bohr, Heisenberg forged what is commonly known as the 'Copenhagen interpretation'. Yet Heisenberg's philosophical viewpoint did not remain fixed over time, and his interpretation of quantum mechanics differed in several crucial respects from Bohr's. This book traces the development of Heisenberg's philosophy of quantum mechanics, beginning with his positivism of the mid-1920s, through his neo-Kantian reading of Bohr in the 1930s, and culminating with his 'linguistic turn' in the 1940s and 1950s. It focuses on the nature of this transformation in Heisenberg's thought and its wider philosophical context, which have up until now not received the attention they deserve. This new perspective on Heisenberg's interpretation of quantum mechanics will interest researchers and graduate students in the history and philosophy of twentieth-century physics.

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Download or read book L Uno written by Heinrich Päs and published by Bollati Boringhieri. This book was released on 2024-02-09T00:00:00+01:00 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: «Siamo un tutt'uno con l'universo? È una domanda antica come l'uomo, profonda come un tunnel spaziotemporale e ampia come le possibilità infinitamente ramificate dell'interpretazione dei molti mondi. Ma Päs è pronto alla sfida e fornisce un resoconto originale e fresco della storia e della scienza del monismo. Una lettura avvincente per chi vuole capire il proprio posto nella natura. E chi non lo vorrebbe?» Sabine Hossenfelder, autrice di «Sedotti dalla matematica» Come tutto, anche questo libro sarà fatto di atomi, e gli atomi sono fatti di elettroni e nucleo, e il nucleo è composto di protoni e neutroni, i quali sono a loro volta composti di quark. Ogni cosa può essere scomposta in cose più piccole, la cui somma dovrebbe ricomporre l’oggetto di partenza. Ma è davvero così? Atomi, protoni e quark sono oggetti descritti dalla meccanica quantistica, disciplina che afferma che non si può scomporre un oggetto senza perdere qualche informazione fondamentale: la somma delle parti non dà il tutto. Se prendiamo sul serio la fisica quantistica non possiamo ridurre la realtà per capirla; la descrizione fondamentale dell’universo non può che essere l’universo stesso nel suo complesso. L’Uno, indivisibile. L’Uno è il racconto di una profonda crisi della fisica e del concetto quasi dimenticato che ha la capacità potenziale di risolverla. Si tratta di un’idea vecchia di 3000 anni: Tutto è Uno. Nel corso della storia è stata sostenuta da pensatori eccezionali, ma anche fieramente avversata, considerata irrazionale e perfino eretica. Oggi, però, proprio questo monismo radicale, secondo Heinrich Päs, può salvare la fisica dalla crisi che l’ha colta e dalla quale non riesce a uscire. Nella concezione monista la materia, lo spazio, il tempo e la mente sono soltanto artefatti della nostra prospettiva sull’universo. Nel mondo esiste solo una sostanza e tutte le sue singole manifestazioni sono solo un’illusione. In questo libro Heinrich Päs racconta come questo concetto si è evoluto e come ha plasmato il corso della storia, dall’antichità fino alla fisica moderna, non solo ispirando l’arte di Botticelli, Mozart e Goethe, ma anche entrando nel cuore della scienza, da Newton e Faraday a Einstein. In parte fisica, in parte filosofia e storia delle idee, L’Uno è un libro che affascina per la sua visione rivoluzionaria del mondo, portando il lettore con maestria da Eraclito a Platone, da Galileo a Spinoza, fino ai giganti della fisica quantistica contemporanea.