A Physicist Remembers

Author : Richard J. Weiss
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 9812707506
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Physicist Remembers written by Richard J. Weiss and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2007 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Physicist Remembers traces the effort to measure electron charge, spin, and momentum density on atoms and solids and to compare experiment with theory. Since the complexity of electron arrangements leads to subtle property changes in atoms, molecules and solids, theory and experiment have generally differed by about 1%. The Sagamore conferences have made inroads in reducing this difference. Since 1963 the triennial Sagamore conferences have been held in New York, France, Russia, Finland, Portugal, Germany, Canada, Japan, and England, attracting thousands of participants. Richard J Weiss, original organizer of these conferences, describes the evolution of the X-ray, neutron, and positron probes employed in these measurements. He has performed research with Francis Jenkins at the University of California at Berkeley, Simon Pasternack at Brookhaven National Laboratory, John Slater and B Warren at MIT, Peter Wohlfarth at Imperial College London, M Hart at King''s College London, and Sir N Mott at Cavendish Laboratory.

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ISBN 13 : 9814476862
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Author : Carlo Rovelli
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 073521610X
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Order of Time written by Carlo Rovelli and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2018-05-08 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of TIME’s Ten Best Nonfiction Books of the Decade "Meet the new Stephen Hawking . . . The Order of Time is a dazzling book." --The Sunday Times From the bestselling author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics, Reality Is Not What It Seems, Helgoland, and Anaximander comes a concise, elegant exploration of time. Why do we remember the past and not the future? What does it mean for time to "flow"? Do we exist in time or does time exist in us? In lyric, accessible prose, Carlo Rovelli invites us to consider questions about the nature of time that continue to puzzle physicists and philosophers alike. For most readers this is unfamiliar terrain. We all experience time, but the more scientists learn about it, the more mysterious it remains. We think of it as uniform and universal, moving steadily from past to future, measured by clocks. Rovelli tears down these assumptions one by one, revealing a strange universe where at the most fundamental level time disappears. He explains how the theory of quantum gravity attempts to understand and give meaning to the resulting extreme landscape of this timeless world. Weaving together ideas from philosophy, science and literature, he suggests that our perception of the flow of time depends on our perspective, better understood starting from the structure of our brain and emotions than from the physical universe. Already a bestseller in Italy, and written with the poetic vitality that made Seven Brief Lessons on Physics so appealing, The Order of Time offers a profoundly intelligent, culturally rich, novel appreciation of the mysteries of time.

Author : Chandre Dharma-wardana
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 9814425435
Total Pages : 520 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Physicist's View of Matter and Mind written by Chandre Dharma-wardana and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2013-03-20 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a highly interdisciplinary book straddling physics and complex systems such as living organisms. The presentation is from the perspective of physics, in a manner accessible to those interested in scientific knowledge integrated within its socio-cultural and philosophical backgrounds. Two key areas of human understanding, namely physics and conscious complex systems, are presented in simple language. An optional technical presentation is also given in parallel where it is needed. Contents:Part I. The Nature of Physical Law:A Bird's Eye View of Our QuestAn Epistemic Hunt for Scientific TruthThe Laws of Nature and the Supremacy of SymmetryMaxwell's Magical Trinity — Electricity, Magnetism and LightThe Theory of RelativityThe Quantum World and 'Reality'Entanglement, Measurement and Quantum ParadoxesMany Particle Systems and the Classical LimitEnergy, Entropy and Emergent PropertiesPart II. Complex Systems and Consiousness:Bio-Molecules, the Sub-Slime of AstrochemistryThe Cell as the Basic Unit of LifeSpecialized Cells for Sight, Insight, and InformationExotic, Quantum Explanations of ConsciousnessAddressing the Enigmatic Questions Readership: General audience with interest in physics and complex systems biology as well as science academics. Keywords:Laws of Physics;Epistemology of Science;Scientific Revolutions;Relativity;Quantum Theory;Bohmian Picture;Paradoxes in Physics;Density Functional Theory;Decoherence;Thermodynamics;Determinism and Free Will;Emergent Properties;Evolution;Origin of life;Memory;ConsciousnessKey Features:The book traces developments in astrochemistry and the origin of life, and it provides the reader with our modern understanding of memory and consciousness

Author : Brooks A. Agnew
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1450252486
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Remembering the Future written by Brooks A. Agnew and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2010-09 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author proposes a scientific basis for the power of intention in the creation of future realities.

Author : Otto Robert Frisch
Publisher : Plunkett Lake Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book What Little I Remember written by Otto Robert Frisch and published by Plunkett Lake Press. This book was released on 2019-08-17 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Otto Robert Frisch took part in some of the most momentous developments in modern physics, notably the discovery of nuclear fission (a term which he coined). His work on the first atom bomb, which he saw explode in the desert “like the light of a thousand suns”, brought him into contact with figures such as Robert Oppenheimer, Edward Teller, Richard Feynman and the father of electronic computers, John von Neumann. He also encountered the physicists who had made the great discoveries of recent generations: Einstein, Rutherford and Niels Bohr. This characterful book of reminiscences sheds an engagingly personal light on the people and events behind some of the greatest scientific discoveries of this century, illustrated with a series of fascinating photographs and witty sketches by the author himself. “This is a happy book, from which the author's personality and his enjoyment of physics, of music, of life, emerges clearly. It is also a portrait of the pre-War world of physics, of days of small numbers and small apparatus, of times when a physicist could think of an ingenious experiment today and set it up tomorrow.” — Rudolf Peierls, Nature “In writing a charming, light-hearted cameo of his life and times as a scientist, Professor Frisch has revealed more about science than many authors with greater pretensions. This is a book that deserves to be read, and will be enjoyed, by a wide audience.” — The Economist “Despite his modest title, what Frisch ‘manages to remember’ is quite impressive. He loved to tell stories and his many vignettes of his associates... include nearly every outstanding physicist who worked in nuclear physics.” — Science “In the straightforward narrative style he developed writing lay treatments of modern physics, Frisch recounts his memories of significant men and events in the history of physics between 1920 and 1960... Frisch tells his stories well...” — Robert W. Seidel,Isis, A Journal of the History of Science Society

Author : Michio Kaku
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0385530811
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Physics of the Future written by Michio Kaku and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2011-03-15 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The renowned theoretical physicist and national bestselling author of The God Equation details the developments in computer technology, artificial intelligence, medicine, space travel, and more, that are poised to happen over the next century. “Mind-bending…. [An] alternately fascinating and frightening book.” —San Francisco Chronicle Space elevators. Internet-enabled contact lenses. Cars that fly by floating on magnetic fields. This is the stuff of science fiction—it’s also daily life in the year 2100. Renowned theoretical physicist Michio Kaku considers how these inventions will affect the world economy, addressing the key questions: Who will have jobs? Which nations will prosper? Kaku interviews three hundred of the world’s top scientists—working in their labs on astonishing prototypes. He also takes into account the rigorous scientific principles that regulate how quickly, how safely, and how far technologies can advance. In Physics of the Future, Kaku forecasts a century of earthshaking advances in technology that could make even the last centuries’ leaps and bounds seem insignificant.

Author : Joseph Polchinski
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262368900
Total Pages : 339 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Memories of a Theoretical Physicist written by Joseph Polchinski and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2022-05-24 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A groundbreaking theoretical physicist traces his career, reflecting on the successes and failures, triumphs and insecurities of a life cut short by cancer. The groundbreaking theoretical physicist Joseph Polchinski explained the genesis of his memoir this way: “Having only two bodies of knowledge, myself and physics, I decided to write an autobiography about my development as a theoretical physicist.” In this posthumously published account of his life and work, Polchinski (1954–2018) describes successes and failures, triumphs and insecurities, and the sheer persistence that led to his greatest discoveries. Writing engagingly and accessibly, with the wry humor for which he was known, Polchinski gives theoretical physics a very human face. Polchinski, famous for his contributions to string theory, may have changed the course of modern theoretical physics, but he was a late bloomer—doing most of his important work after the age of forty. His death from brain cancer at sixty-three cut short a career at its peak. Working on the memoir after his diagnosis, using a text-to-speech algorithm because he could no longer read words on a page, he was able to recapitulate his entire career, down to the details of problems he had worked on. For Polchinski, physics went deeper than words. This edition includes photographs from Polchinski’s professional and family life, as well as physics explainer boxes, other technical edits, and bibliographic notes by his former student Ahmad Almheiri, a foreword by Andrew Strominger, and an afterword by his wife Dorothy Chun and sons Steven and Daniel.

Author : Lee Smolin
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780618551057
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Trouble with Physics written by Lee Smolin and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2006 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sample Text

Author : Paul H E Meijer
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 9814492787
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Views of a Physicist written by Paul H E Meijer and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2000-07-24 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: N G van Kampen is a well-known theoretical physicist who has had a long and distinguished career. His research covers scattering theory, plasma physics, statistical mechanics, and various mathematical aspects of physics. In addition to his scientific work, he has written a number of papers about more general aspects of science. An indefatigable fighter for intellectual honesty and clarity, he has pointed out repeatedly that the fundamental ideas of physics have been needlessly obscured. As those papers appeared in various journals, partly in Dutch, it was felt that it would be worthwhile to collect them (translating the Dutch material into English) and make them available to a larger audience. This is a book of major importance to scientists and university teachers. Contents:Philosophy of Physics:Physics, Is It a Science?What is Science?Determinism and PredictabilityThe Theory of EverythingMisconceptions about PhysicsQuestions Without AnswersThe Retreat of RationalityStatistical Mechanics:IrreversibilityProbability in Theoretical PhysicsEntropyProbability and Noise in PhysicsThe Fokker-Planck EquationIntroduction to Chaos TheoryFrom Statistical Mechanics to Quantum TheoryHow Do Stochastic Processes Enter into Physics?Quantum Mechanics:Are the Foundations of Quantum Mechanics Problematical?Ten Theorems About Quantum Mechanical MeasurementsPostmodern ObscurantismQuantum ChaosAgainst BellAtavisms:Review of a Book by Louis de BroglieA Redundant TheoryChance is Not AccidentalThe Danger of PopularizationGreat Physicists:CopernicusThe Legacy of Smoluchowski and Einstein in Statistical PhysicsDresden's Life of KramersRemembering KramersH A Kramers: 1894–1952Kramers and the Problem of Escape Over a BarrierHistoriography and the Work of H A KramersEinstein's Early YearsL C P Van HoveE P WignerMiscellaneous:Space Travel and PhysicsPhysics in the Twentieth CenturyMemorable Events in HistoryThe Danger of Science ManagementBibliometry — Is It a Science?Bizarre SciencePhysics and the Paranormal Readership: Students and researchers in physics. Keywords:Philosophy of Science;Brownian Motion;Chaos;Irreversibility;Entropy;Foundations of Quantum Mechanics;Collapse of the Wave Function;History of Physics;Paranormal;Science Management;Popularization of Science;KramersReviews:“I strongly recommend this selection of papers, which sheds a strong illuminating light on present-day physics — warts and all.”Physics World “Van Kampen's work has been marked by powerful lines of thought and originality. His scientific papers stand out for their clarity, critical content and scientific quality, assets that are also reflected in these writings on a different genre. This is a delightful book that is fascinating to read.”Journal of Statistical Physics