The Cosmic Code: Quantum Physics as the Language of Nature (Pelican)
Language: English
Published by Pelican/Penguin Books Ltd, 1984
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- Title
- The Cosmic Code: Quantum Physics as the Language of Nature (Pelican)
- Author
- Heinz R. Pagels
- Publisher
- Pelican/Penguin Books Ltd
- Publication year
- 1984
- Condition
- Good
- Dust jacket
- No Jacket
- Binding
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0140225471
- ISBN 13
- 9780140225471
- Item weight
- 0.55 pounds
Acknowledgments
Foreword
The last classical physicist
Inventing general relativity
The first quantum physicists
Heisenberg on Helgoland
Uncertainty and complementarity
Randomness
The invisible hand
Statistical mechanics
Making waves
Schrödinger's cat
A quantum mechanical fairy tale
Bell's inequality
The reality marketplace
The matter microscopes
Beginning the molecules, atoms and nuclei
The riddle of the hadrons
Quarks
Leptons
Gluons
Fields, particles and reality
Being and nothingness
Identity and difference
The gauge field theory revolution
Proton decay
The quantum and the cosmos
Laying down the law
The cosmic code
Bibliography
Index
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About the Author
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