Uncertainty : Einstein, Heisenberg, Bohr, and the struggle for the soul of science / David Lindley.

  • Lindley, David, 1956-
Date:
[2007], ©2007
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New York : Doubleday, [2007], ©2007.

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257 pages ; 22 cm

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references (p. [243]-247) and index.

Contents

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.

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  • 0385515065
  • 9780385515061