Quantum Profiles: John Stewart Bell: Quantum Engineer (And) John Wheeler: Retarded Learner
Language: English
Published by Princeton University Press, 1991
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Viii, 178 Pp. Black Cloth Lettered In Silver. First Printing Indicated; Fine In Fine Dust Jacket. Bell's Theorem Is One Of The Most Important In Physics, But Requires Much Knowledge Of Physics To Even Think About. John Archibald Wheeler Gave A Course At Columbia "Foundation Problems Of Physic"; When Asked "Where Is The Barrier Between Solipsism And Objective Reality In A Physical Theory, Wheeler Responded . The Los Angeles Girl Locked From A Babyhood To Age 13 (When Neighbors Found Out And Called The Police) In An Attic Room, Given Food But Never Spoken To, Had By That Time Lost The Power Not Merely To Speak, But Even To Think, There Is Not A Word We Utter, A Concept We Use, An Idea We Form, Which Does Not Directly Or Indirectly Depend On The Larger Community For Its Existence. 'Meaning' - And What Else Is 'Objective Reality' If It Is Not Meaning? . Is The Joint Property Of Those Who Communicate.".
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- Title
- Quantum Profiles: John Stewart Bell: Quantum Engineer (And) John Wheeler: Retarded Learner
- Author
- Bernstein, Jeremy
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Publication year
- 1991
- Condition
- Fine
- Dust jacket
- Fine
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0691087253
- ISBN 13
- 9780691087252
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Printing
- 1st Printing
- Seller catalogs
- Physics
For the prominent science writer Jeremy Bernstein, the profile is the most congenial way of communicating science. Here, in what he labels a "series of conversations carried on in the reader's behalf and my own," he evokes the tremendous intellectual excitement of the world of modern physics, especially the quantum revolution. Drawing on his well-known talent for explaining the most complex scientific ideas for the layperson, Bernstein gives us a lively sense of what the issues of quantum mechanics are and of various ways in which individual physicists approached them.
The author begins this series of interconnected profiles by describing the life and work of John Stewart Bell, the brilliant physicist employed at the gigantic elementary particle laboratory near Geneva (CERN), whose "Bell's Inequality" inspired a generation of researchers to confront, by experiment, just how peculiar and counterintuitional quantum mechanics really is. Bernstein then discusses the career of the prodigiously active and creative John Archibald Wheeler, who worked in the beginning stages of almost every branch of contemporary physics and invented the terms "black hole," "ergo-sphere," "geon," "Planck length," and "stellarator." The book closes with a moving commentary on the correspondence, of fifty-two years duration, between Einstein and the gentle, talented, but little-known Swiss engineer Michele Angelo Besso. "Of all the Einstein letters I have read these are surely the most striking, on a purely human level," writes Bernstein of the Einstein-Besso correspondence. "Einstein was not given to close friendships--`the merely personal,' as he once put it--but these letters are filled with `the merely personal,' even though the deep issues of physics and its philosophy are never very far away."
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"A collection of three warm, colorful and insightful profiles of physicists who have contributed to the study of quantum mechanics." (The Washington Times)
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