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Newton Roger G |
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How physics confronts reality [[electronic resource] ] : Einstein was correct, but Bohr won the game / / Roger G. Newton |
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New Jersey, : World Scientific, 2009 |
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ISBN |
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1-282-75819-5 |
9786612758195 |
981-4277-04-5 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (158 p.) |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 135-137) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Contents; Preface; Introduction; 1. Some Quantum History; The True Revolutionaries; A New View of the Atom; Constructing a Coherent Theory; 2. Rules and Interpretations; The Measurement Problem; Entanglement; 3. Einstein's Defection; The EPR Paper; Schrödinger's Cat; Ensembles; Enter John Bell; From Micro to Macro; Was Einstein Right?; 4. From Atomism to Real Particles; Atomism in the Middle Ages; The First Scientific Revolution; Atoms Based on Science; Atoms and the Nature of Heat; The Role of Boltzmann; Einstein Enters the Picture; 5. Laws of Motion; The Great Break with Aristotle |
Problems of Motion Dominate Physics The New Perspective; New Laws of Motion; 6. Fields; 7. New Particles and their Quantum Origins; Quantum Field Theory; The First New Particles; What Holds the Nucleus Together?; The New Accelerators; 8. Atoms, Inside and Out; The Energy Source of the Stars; Explaining the Origin of the Elements; Explaining Radioactivity; Properties of Solid Matter; Superconductivity; 9. Methods and Underpinnings; Experimental Methods; A New Theoretical Tool; Strange Particles; The Standard Model; Epilogue; References and Further Reading; Index |
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"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 |
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