Time, Light and the Dice of Creation: Through Paradox in Physics to a New Order
Мы: Philip Franses Название: Time, Light and the Dice of Creation: Through Paradox in Physics to a New Order
Издательство: Floris Books
Годок: 2015
Формат: epub
Размер: 2.9 Mb
Язык: Английский
The laws of modern physics are seen as the bedrock of our understanding of the material world that surrounds us. Newton's and Maxwell's mathematics reliably describe behaviour and events in the world, and have given us the age of technology from telephones to space travel. Yet the founders of modern scientific thought, such as Einstein, Bohr, Heisenberg and Pauli, struggled to pin down the paradoxical concepts they needed to present 'workable' theories, as the subatomic and quantum world began to reveal its mysteries.