How Physics Confronts Reality

Author : Roger G Newton
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 9814338524
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How Physics Confronts Reality: Einstein Was Correct, But Bohr Won The Game written by Roger G Newton and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2009-07-28 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book recalls, for nonscientific readers, the history of quantum mechanics, the main points of its interpretation, and Einstein's objections to it, together with the responses engendered by his arguments. Most popular discussions on the strange aspects of quantum mechanics ignore the fundamental fact that Einstein was correct in his insistence that the theory does not directly describe reality. While that fact does not remove the theory's counterintuitive features, it casts them in a different light.Context is provided by following the history of two central aspects of physics: the elucidation of the basic structure of the world made up of particles, and the explanation, as well as the prediction, of how objects move. This history, prior to quantum mechanics, reveals that whereas theories and discoveries concerning the structure of nature became increasingly realistic, the laws of motion, even as they became more powerful, became more and more abstract and remote from intuitive notions of reality. Newton's laws of motion gained their abstract power by sacrificing direct and intuitive contact with real experience. Arriving 250 years after Newton, the break with a direct description of reality embodied in quantum mechanics was nevertheless profound.

Author : Philip Russell Wallace
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 9789971509309
Total Pages : 596 pages
Book Rating : 4.0X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Physics written by Philip Russell Wallace and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 1991 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Physics: Imagination and Reality introduces the reader to major ideas and the conceptual structure of modern physics, by tracing its development from the introduction of fields into physics by Faraday and Maxwell in the last century. Because the approach is historical, the book provides a comprehensive overview of the subjects. It should appeal to anyone interested in a basic understanding of the contemporary physicists view of the physical world. It avoids all but the simplest mathematics and presents ideas and concepts in everyday language.Physics: Imagination and Reality attempts to provide educated citizens with an understanding of contemporary physics and, at the same time, shows that its ideas have a grandeur, a challenge to the imagination and an aesthetic appeal which merit its recognition as an integral part of our culture.

Author : Valerio Scarani
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198570473
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Quantum Physics: A First Encounter written by Valerio Scarani and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2006-01-05 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essential features of quantum physics, largely debated since its discovery, are presented in this book, through the description (without mathematics) of recent experiments. Putting the accent on physical phenomena, this book clarifies the historical issues (delocalisation, interferences) and reaches out to modern topics (quantum cryptography, non-locality and teleportation); the debate on interpretations is serenely reviewed.

Author : Paul Davies
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107684536
Total Pages : 507 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Information and the Nature of Reality written by Paul Davies and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-05-15 with total page 507 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From quantum to biological and digital, here eminent scientists, philosophers and theologians chart various aspects of information.

Author : Roger G. Newton
Publisher : World Scientific Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9789814439916
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Roger Newton Collection written by Roger G. Newton and published by World Scientific Publishing Company. This book was released on 2009-07-28 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This set contains 3 best selling titles by Roger G Newton, a Distinguished Professor Emeritus from the Department of Physics of Indiana University. The 3 titles enclose within this set are: The Science of Energy, How Physics Confronts Reality: Einstein was correct, but Bohr Won the Game, and Why Science? To know, to Understand, and to Rely on Results. Science of Energy deals with the concept of energy and the laws governing it, as well as its various forms and modes of storage. How Physics Confronts Reality covers the theory of quantum mechanics, science's description of the very small, and what its probabilistic nature means for reality. Finally, Why Science? discusses the essence of scientific knowledge itself, why it matters, and how the great scientists of the past have expanded its range. The books are written in easy language understandable to lay readers and appeal to a wide audience interested in Science.

Author : Henry Margenau
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 504 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Nature of Physical Reality written by Henry Margenau and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Preliminary survey of reality -- Ways of arriving at reality -- What is immediately given? -- Departure from the immediate; constructs -- Metaphysical requirements on constructs -- Empirical confirmation -- Space and time -- System, observables, and states -- Physics of discrete systems -- Physics of continua -- Thermodynamics -- The role of definitions in science -- Probability -- Statistical mechanics -- Reality : a first outline -- The breakdown of physical models -- Basic ideas of quantum mechanics -- Uncertainty and measurements -- Causality -- The exclusion principle -- The contours of reality.

Author : Arkady Plotnitsky
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9783030845797
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reality Without Realism written by Arkady Plotnitsky and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents quantum theory as a theory based on new relationships among matter, thought, and experimental technology, as against those previously found in physics, relationships that also redefine those between mathematics and physics in quantum theory. The argument of the book is based on its title concept, reality without realism (RWR), and in the corresponding view, the RWR view, of quantum theory. The book considers, from this perspective, the thinking of Bohr, Heisenberg, Schrödinger, and Dirac, with the aim of bringing together the philosophy and history of quantum theory. With quantum theory, the book argues, the architecture of thought in theoretical physics was radically changed by the irreducible role of experimental technology in the constitution of physical phenomena, accordingly, no longer defined independently by matter alone, as they were in classical physics or relativity. Or so it appeared. For, quantum theory, the book further argues, made us realize that experimental technology, beginning with that of our bodies, irreducibly shapes all physical phenomena, and thus makes us rethink the relationships among matter, thought, and technology in all of physics.

Author : Arun Bala
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319397842
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Complementarity Beyond Physics written by Arun Bala and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-12-01 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this study Arun Bala examines the implications that Niels Bohr’s principle of complementarity holds for fields beyond physics. Bohr, one of the founding figures of modern quantum physics, argued that the principle of complementarity he proposed for understanding atomic processes has parallels in psychology, biology, and social science, as well as in Buddhist and Taoist thought. But Bohr failed to offer any explanation for why complementarity might extend beyond physics, and his claims have been widely rejected by scientists as empty speculation. Scientific scepticism has only been reinforced by the naïve enthusiasm of postmodern relativists and New Age intuitionists, who seize upon Bohr’s ideas to justify anti-realist and mystical positions. Arun Bala offers a detailed defence of Bohr’s claim that complementarity has far-reaching implications for the biological and social sciences, as well as for comparative philosophies of science, by explaining Bohr’s parallels as responses to the omnipresence of grown properties in nature.

Author : David D. Nolte
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192528505
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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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.

Author : Hunter, Maureen
Publisher : OIBooks-Libros
ISBN 13 : 1896239994
Total Pages : 944 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Three Plays of Maureen Hunter written by Hunter, Maureen and published by OIBooks-Libros. This book was released on 2003 with total page 944 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Book is clean and tight. No writing in text. Like New