God Plays Dice with the World - The History of Quantum Mechanics
God Plays Dice with the World - The History of Quantum Mechanics
Mussardo, Giuseppe
Springer Nature Switzerland AG
04/2026
459
Mole
Inglês
9783032147387
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Preface.- 1. The colour mystery (Am Kupfergraben 7, Berlin; Something Absolute).- 2. The Century of Wonders (The Age of Romanticism;Calculating the World;The Mechanics of the Universe; Fiat Lux; The Secret Life of Force Lines; Heat in Motion; Kinetic Theory; Entropy and Probability).- 3. The Blackbody (Good Masters, Poor Lecturers; The Origin of the Problem; A Blackbody That Isn't Really Black; Exact and Approximate Laws; The Fatal Attraction of Entropy; Planck's Version)- 4. Ordinary Geniuses and Wizards (Birds and Frogs; Portrait of a Scientist as a Young Man;Third-Class Patent Office Clerk; Quanta of Light; Perpetual Motion; Crystal Heat).- 5. The Experimental Side of Physics (The Importance of the Vacuum; Joseph John Thomson; Seeing the Invisible; Alpha Beta Gamma;The Crocodile from New Zealand; Spectral Lines).- 6. Natura Facit Saltum (Two Brothers; From Copenhagen to Manchester, via Cambridge; The Risks of a Theorist; Back to Denmark; The Colors of a Butterfly's Wings; Mocking Logic; Quantum Jumps).- 7. The Music of the Spheres (The Spider's Skill; Experimental Discoveries; It Was the Best of Times, It Was the Worst of Times; New Quantum Numbers; Probability and Perplexity; The Impulse of a Photon).- 8. The Little Prince (Noblesse Oblige; The Lab in Rue Chateaubriand; Wave Mechanics; The Music of Atoms; Matter Waves; The Pilot Wave).- 9. God's Punishment (Bohr's Festival; The Periodic Table; Celtium? No, Hafnium; The Pauli Effect; Light and Shadows; Born and Bohr; Brilliant Insights; The Intricate Story of the Spin; A Trunk Full of People; The Analyst and the Stubborn Rationalist).- 10. The Birth of a New Mechanics (Top of the Class; Pride and Prejudice; The Sorrows of Young Werner; The Rage of the Defeated; Calm Chaos; The Noblest of Gases; Bohr's Blunder; Helgoland; Matrix).- 11. The Passion for Waves (A Christmas Gift; A World Full of Women; The Stage of Vienna; Inseparable; A Wave in Search of an Equation; Atomic Undulations;Two Different Worldviews; Probability Waves;The Spirit of Copenhagen).- 12. Beauty is Truth, Truth is Beauty (A Quiet Child; St. John College; A Seminar at the Kapitza Club; The Greatest Satisfaction in Life; In Search of an Equation; Dirac's Sea).- 13. The Race Toward Absolute Zero (The Coldest Place on Earth; Offer No Resistance; A Letter from India; Loss of Identity; Black Holes and Atomic Condensates).- 14. Dialogue concerning the two Chief World Systems (A River of Words;The Uncertainty Principle; Complementarity Principle; The 1927 Solvay Conference; Redde Rationem; The Quintessence of Quantum Strangeness; A Fatal Blow).- 15. Quantum Field Theory (A Fascinating Union; Classical and Quantum Fields; The Origin of Particles; Neutrino, Neutron, and Positron; Matters of Principle; The Enigma of Infinities; Shelter Island; QED, the Jewel of Physics; Weyl's Insight).- 16. The Drama of War (The Weaving of History; The Sky Over Berlin; The Red Fish Fountain; At the Heart of the Nucleus; The White Jew; J. Robert Oppenheimer, Portrait of an Enigma).- 17. The Speakable and the Unspeakable (The Nature of Things; Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen; Bohr's Response; Alive and Dead; Entanglement and Locality; The Garden of Forking Paths; John Stewart Bell and Dr. Bertlmann's Socks; Mermin's Device; God Plays Dice with the World).- Afterword.- Notes.- Glossary.- Chronology.- Selected Bibliography.- Physical Constants.- Index.
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Quantum Mechanics;History of quantum mechanics;History of atomic physics;Bohr and Einstein;Scientific rivalries;Heisenberg and Schrodinger;Einstein Podrovsky Rosen paper and Bell's inequalities;Probability and determinism;multi-universe;quantum statistics;black body radiation;Bohr's atom;Solvay conference;Quantum Field Theory;Pauli;de Broglie;wave mechanics
Preface.- 1. The colour mystery (Am Kupfergraben 7, Berlin; Something Absolute).- 2. The Century of Wonders (The Age of Romanticism;Calculating the World;The Mechanics of the Universe; Fiat Lux; The Secret Life of Force Lines; Heat in Motion; Kinetic Theory; Entropy and Probability).- 3. The Blackbody (Good Masters, Poor Lecturers; The Origin of the Problem; A Blackbody That Isn't Really Black; Exact and Approximate Laws; The Fatal Attraction of Entropy; Planck's Version)- 4. Ordinary Geniuses and Wizards (Birds and Frogs; Portrait of a Scientist as a Young Man;Third-Class Patent Office Clerk; Quanta of Light; Perpetual Motion; Crystal Heat).- 5. The Experimental Side of Physics (The Importance of the Vacuum; Joseph John Thomson; Seeing the Invisible; Alpha Beta Gamma;The Crocodile from New Zealand; Spectral Lines).- 6. Natura Facit Saltum (Two Brothers; From Copenhagen to Manchester, via Cambridge; The Risks of a Theorist; Back to Denmark; The Colors of a Butterfly's Wings; Mocking Logic; Quantum Jumps).- 7. The Music of the Spheres (The Spider's Skill; Experimental Discoveries; It Was the Best of Times, It Was the Worst of Times; New Quantum Numbers; Probability and Perplexity; The Impulse of a Photon).- 8. The Little Prince (Noblesse Oblige; The Lab in Rue Chateaubriand; Wave Mechanics; The Music of Atoms; Matter Waves; The Pilot Wave).- 9. God's Punishment (Bohr's Festival; The Periodic Table; Celtium? No, Hafnium; The Pauli Effect; Light and Shadows; Born and Bohr; Brilliant Insights; The Intricate Story of the Spin; A Trunk Full of People; The Analyst and the Stubborn Rationalist).- 10. The Birth of a New Mechanics (Top of the Class; Pride and Prejudice; The Sorrows of Young Werner; The Rage of the Defeated; Calm Chaos; The Noblest of Gases; Bohr's Blunder; Helgoland; Matrix).- 11. The Passion for Waves (A Christmas Gift; A World Full of Women; The Stage of Vienna; Inseparable; A Wave in Search of an Equation; Atomic Undulations;Two Different Worldviews; Probability Waves;The Spirit of Copenhagen).- 12. Beauty is Truth, Truth is Beauty (A Quiet Child; St. John College; A Seminar at the Kapitza Club; The Greatest Satisfaction in Life; In Search of an Equation; Dirac's Sea).- 13. The Race Toward Absolute Zero (The Coldest Place on Earth; Offer No Resistance; A Letter from India; Loss of Identity; Black Holes and Atomic Condensates).- 14. Dialogue concerning the two Chief World Systems (A River of Words;The Uncertainty Principle; Complementarity Principle; The 1927 Solvay Conference; Redde Rationem; The Quintessence of Quantum Strangeness; A Fatal Blow).- 15. Quantum Field Theory (A Fascinating Union; Classical and Quantum Fields; The Origin of Particles; Neutrino, Neutron, and Positron; Matters of Principle; The Enigma of Infinities; Shelter Island; QED, the Jewel of Physics; Weyl's Insight).- 16. The Drama of War (The Weaving of History; The Sky Over Berlin; The Red Fish Fountain; At the Heart of the Nucleus; The White Jew; J. Robert Oppenheimer, Portrait of an Enigma).- 17. The Speakable and the Unspeakable (The Nature of Things; Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen; Bohr's Response; Alive and Dead; Entanglement and Locality; The Garden of Forking Paths; John Stewart Bell and Dr. Bertlmann's Socks; Mermin's Device; God Plays Dice with the World).- Afterword.- Notes.- Glossary.- Chronology.- Selected Bibliography.- Physical Constants.- Index.
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Quantum Mechanics;History of quantum mechanics;History of atomic physics;Bohr and Einstein;Scientific rivalries;Heisenberg and Schrodinger;Einstein Podrovsky Rosen paper and Bell's inequalities;Probability and determinism;multi-universe;quantum statistics;black body radiation;Bohr's atom;Solvay conference;Quantum Field Theory;Pauli;de Broglie;wave mechanics