Uncertainty Einstein, Heisenberg, Bohr, and the Struggle for the Soul of Science

Name: Uncertainty Einstein, Heisenberg, Bohr, and the Struggle for the Soul of Science
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ISBN: 9781400079964

ISBN-10: 1400079969

ISBN-13: 9781400079964

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Authors: David Lindley

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Werner Heisenberg's "uncertainty principle" challenged centuries of scientific understanding, placed him in direct opposition to Albert Einstein, and put Niels Bohr in the middle of one of the most heated debates in scientific history. Heisenberg's theorem stated that there were physical limits to what we could know about sub-atomic particles; this "uncertainty" would have shocking implications. In a riveting account, David Lindley captures this critical episode and explains one of the most important scientific discoveries in history, which has since transcended the boundaries of science and influenced everything from literary theory to television.

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List price: $16.95
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 2/12/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 5.16" wide x 7.95" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 0.198



Introduction



Irritable Particles



Entropy Strives Toward a Maximum



An Enigma, A Subject of Profound Astonishment



How Does an Electron Decide?



An Audacity Unheard of in Earlier Times



Lack of Knowledge is no Guarantee of Success



How Can One Be Happy?



I Would Rather Be A Cobbler



Something Has Happened



The Soul of the Old System



I Am Inclined to Give Up Determinism



Our Words Don't Fit



Awful Bohr Incantation Terminology



Now the Game Was Won



Life-Experience and Not Scientific Experience



Possibilities of Unambiguous Interpretation



The No-Man's-Land Between Logic and Physics



Anarchy at Last


Postscript


Acknowledgments


Notes


Bibliography


Index