Quantum Leaps: How Quantum Mechanics Took Over Science, Bernstein Jeremy

Автор: Bernstein Jeremy
Название: Nuclear Iran
ISBN: 0674417089 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780674417083
Издательство: Harvard University Press
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Описание: This succinct book is timely reading for anyone who wishes to understand the maze of science and secrecy at the heart of Iran`s nuclear ambitions. Writing for the general reader, Jeremy Bernstein draws on his knowledge as a physicist to elucidate the scientific principles and technical hurdles involved in creating nuclear reactors and bombs.

Автор: Bernstein, Jeremy (stevens Inst Of Technology, Usa)
Название: Bouquet of dyson, a: and other reflections on science and scientists
ISBN: 9813231920 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789813231924
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Описание: 'Freeman Dyson has had an extraordinary range of interests, serious activity and influence. This is reflected in the choice of topics in these essays ... This book is informative, very entertaining and well up to the high standards attained previously by this author 'Contemporary PhysicsMy friendship with Freeman Dyson goes back over a half century. My first contact with him goes back to the late 1950s, when I was at the Institute for Advanced Study, and then evolved when I was a consultant at General Atomics in La Jolla, California. Freeman was then trying to design a space ship -- the Orion -- which would be propelled by atomic bombs. When I left the Institute, Freeman and I continued our correspondence and I saved his letters. They are written in an almost calligraphically elegant handwriting. It is hard to see how you could make a mistake in a mathematical computation if you wrote that clearly. The letters show his human side and his enormous range of knowledge.There are then two essays involving the physicist Fritz Houtermans who was an extraordinarily colorful character. There is a brief essay on Einstein's collaboration with a fraud. There is even an essay on the Titius-Bode law and the new exo-planets. Because of my enduring interest in nuclear weapons, the reader will find essays devoted to that. There is also a bit of fiction at the end.

Автор: Bernstein, Jeremy
Название: Bouquet of dyson, a: and other reflections on science and scientists
ISBN: 9813238283 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789813238282
Издательство: World Scientific Publishing
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Описание: My friendship with Freeman Dyson goes back over a half century. My first contact with him goes back to the late 1950s, when I was at the Institute for Advanced Study, and then evolved when I was a consultant at General Atomics in La Jolla, California.

Автор: Bernstein Jeremy
Название: Quantum Leaps: How Quantum Mechanics Took Over Science
ISBN: 9813274417 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789813274419
Издательство: World Scientific Publishing
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In the early years of its conception, J Robert Oppenheimer spoke of quantum theory as a subject that was "unlikely to be known to any poet or historian." Yet, as Bernstein notes, in just sixty-odd years, one can find at least nine million entries on Google under the rubric "quantum theory" -- from poets and historians, as well as film critics and Buddhist monks. How did quantum mechanics enter general culture so pervasively?

Having studied the subject for over a half-century, Jeremy Bernstein returns in this second edition to enlighten readers with a witty insider's perspective on the development of quantum theory as well as its loopholes. It is also a scintillating account of the interplay between brilliance and fallibility in humankind, even in the key figures who have shaped common understanding of quantum theory -- such eminent figures include Niels Bohr, the Dalai Lama, Tom Stoppard, and most notably, John Bell who made pioneering contributions in quantum physics.

At once thought-provoking and intellectual, this semi-autobiographical popular science book is highly recommended for readers with rudimentary knowledge of science history, philosophy, and naturally, physics.