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Written for general readers, The Cosmic Code goes on a fantastic journey into the microcosmos. Without complicated mathematics, physicist Heinz Pagels presents an understanding of scientific discoveries that have extended human consciousness to the far readches of space & time. Anecdotes from the personal documents of Einstein, Oppenheimer, Niels Bohr & Max Planck provide an intimate glimpse into brilliant persons who've shaped civilzation & changed the world. Elegantly written, this is an opportunity to celebrate the physicist's vision of reality...& how physics is moving toward an understanding of the cosmos.AcknowledgmentsForewordThe last classical physicistInventing general relativityThe first quantum physicistsHeisenberg on HelgolandUncertainty and complementarityRandomnessThe invisible handStatistical mechanicsMaking wavesSchrödinger's catA quantum mechanical fairy taleBell's inequalityThe reality marketplaceThe matter microscopesBeginning the molecules, atoms and nucleiThe riddle of the hadronsQuarksLeptonsGluonsFields, particles and realityBeing and nothingnessIdentity and differenceThe gauge field theory revolutionProton decayThe quantum and the cosmosLaying down the lawThe cosmic codeBibliographyIndex

American physicist Heinz Pagels (1939–1988) was Adjunct Professor of Physics at Rockefeller University as well as the Executive Director and CEO of the New York Academy of Sciences and President of the International League for Human Rights.