The Physicist’s Conception of Nature [E-Book] / edited by Jagdish Mehra.
The fundamental conceptions of twentieth-century physics have profoundly influenced almost every field of modern thought and activity. Quantum Theory, Relativity, and the modern ideas on the Structure of Matter have contributed to a deeper understand ing of Nature, and they will probably rank in hi...
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| Personal Name(s): | Mehra, Jagdish, editor |
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Dordrecht :
Springer,
1973
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| Physical Description: |
XXIV, 839 p. online resource. |
| Note: |
englisch |
| ISBN: |
9789401026024 |
| DOI: |
10.1007/978-94-010-2602-4 |
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- 1 Development of the physicist’s conception of nature
- I Space, Time, and Geometry
- 2 The universe as a whole
- 3 A chapter in the astrophysicist’s view of the universe
- 4 Fundamental constants and their development in time
- 5 The expanding earth
- 6 The nature and structure of spacetime
- 7 Einstein, Hilbert, and the theory of gravitation
- 8 Theory of gravitation
- 9 From relativity to mutability
- II Quantum Theory
- 10 The wave-particle dilemma
- 11 Development of concepts in the history of quantum theory
- 12 From matrix mechanics and wave mechanics to unified quantum mechanics
- 13 Early years of quantum mechanics: some reminiscences
- 14 The mathematical structure of elementary quantum mechanics
- 15 Relativistic equations in quantum mechanics
- 16 The electron: development of the first elementary particle theory
- 17 The development of quantum field theory
- 18 Quantum theory of fields (until 1947)
- 19 Development of quantum electrodynamics
- 20 A report on quantum electrodynamics
- 21 Progress in renormalization theory since 1949
- 22 Some concepts in current elementary particle physics
- 23 Crucial experiments on discrete symmetries
- 24 Superconductivity and superfluidity
- III Statistical Description of Nature
- 25 Problems of statistical physics
- 26 Phase transitions
- 27 Approach to thermodynamic equilibrium (and other stationary states)
- 28 Kinetic approach to non-equilibrium phenomena
- 29 Time, irreversibility and structure
- 30 The origin of biological information
- IV Physical Description, Epistemology, and Philosophy
- 31 Classical and quantum descriptions
- 32 Wavefunction and observer in the quantum theory
- 33 The problem of measurement in quantum mechanics
- 34 Subject and object
- 35 Subject, object, and measurement
- 36 Measurement process and the macroscopic level of quantum mechanics
- 37 Why a new approach to found quantum theory?
- 38 A process conception of nature
- 39 Quantum logic and non-separability
- 40 Physics and philosophy
- V Memorial Lectures
- 41 Recollections of Lord Rutherford
- 42 W. Pauli’s scientific work
- 43 Remarks on Enrico Fermi
- VI Celebration of P.A.M. Dirac’s 70th Birthday
- 44 The banquet of the symposium — in honour of Paul Dirac, including an address on: The classical mind
- Appendix 1 Programme of the symposium
- Appendix 2 Participants
- Index of names.