Wilson Talley, Wendy Teller

Conversations on the Dark Secrets of Physics (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

The idea for this book began over four decades ago when Edward Teller began teaching physics appreciation courses at the University of Chicago. Then, as now, Dr. Teller believes that illiteracy in science is an increasingly great danger to American society, not only for our chil dren but also for our growing adult population. On one hand, the future of every individual on this globe is closely related to science and its applications. Fear of the results of science, which has become prevalent in much of the Western World, leads to mistaken decisions in important political affairs. But this book speaks of no fears and of no decisions-only of the facts that can prevent one of them and indirectly guide the others. From the perspective of this book, a second point is even more vii viii PREFACE significant. The first quarter of this century has seen the most won derful and philosophically most important transformation in our thinking. The intellectual and aesthetic values of the points of view of Einstein and Bohr cannot be overestimated. Nor should they be hidden at the bottom of tons of mathematical rubble. Our young people must be exposed to science both because it is useful and because it is fun. Both of these qualities should be taken at a truly high value.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer New York
• Seitenzahl: 247
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Juni 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781489927729
• Artikelnr.: 44044666

Autorenporträt

Edward Teller is one of the most celebrated and controversial physicists alive today. Through his work at Los Alamos and his development of the hydrogen bomb, he helped usher in the atomic age. He is currently Director Emeritus of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and continues as a Senior Research Fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution.

Wendy Teller is a computer scientist, specializing in software for telecommunications.

Wilson Talley is currently a professor in the Department of Applied Sciences, University of California Davis/Livermore, and is president of the Fannie and John Hertz Foundation.

Inhaltsangabe

Prologue-A Warning.- 1. Relativity: Space and Time of the Physicist.- 2. Statics: The Science of No Motion.- 3. A Revolution Ignored, A Revolution Repressed.- 4. Newton.- 5. "Hypotheses Non Fingo".- 6. Statistical Mechanics: Disorder Is also a Law.- 7. Electricity and Magnetism or The Structure of Vacuum.- 8. The Existence of Atoms.- 9. The Correspondence Principle: A New Science Based on a Contradiction.- 10. Wave-Particle Dualism.- 11. The Uncertainty Principle.- 12. Uses of New Knowledge.- Epilogue: After the Revolution.- Answers.