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Physics and Philosophy: The Revolution in Modern Science

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ISBN: 9780141182155
AuthorHEISENBERG, WERNER
Pub Date03/08/2000
BindingPaperback
Pages176
CountryGBR
Dewey530.01
SeriesPenguin Modern Classics
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Quick overview Explains the central ideas of the quantum revolution and uncertainty principle. This book reveals how words and concepts familiar in daily life can lose their meaning in the world of relativity and quantum physics.
€15.02

Nobel Prize winner Werner Heisenberg's classic account explains the central ideas of the quantum revolution, and his celebrated Uncertainty Principle. Heisenberg reveals how words and concepts familiar in daily life can lose their meaning in the world of relativity and quantum physics.This in turn has profound philosophical implications for the nature of reality.

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Nobel Prize winner Werner Heisenberg's classic account explains the central ideas of the quantum revolution, and his celebrated Uncertainty Principle. Heisenberg reveals how words and concepts familiar in daily life can lose their meaning in the world of relativity and quantum physics.This in turn has profound philosophical implications for the nature of reality.