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Inventing Reality Bruce Gregory

Inventing Reality By Bruce Gregory

Inventing Reality by Bruce Gregory


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This volume traces the history of the basic concepts in physics and the evolution of its language, showing that science is the imaginative creation of the inquisitive human mind. The author discusses the work of such scientists as Bohr, Einstein and Weinberg.

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Inventing Reality: Physics as Language by Bruce Gregory

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Table of Contents

In the beginning was the word; the invaluable concept of force; the indispensible idea of fields; the ingenious notion of atoms; the unimaginable unity of spacetime; the imponderance nature of matter; the inexhaustible fecundity of space; the improbable prevalence of symmetry; W and Z fields; the ineffable colour of quarks; the unlimited imagination of physicists; the inscrutable essence of mathematics; the unspeakable power of language; the last word. Appendices: is there a fact in the matter?; Schroedinger's cat; the problem of measurement; language domains.

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CIN0471613886G
9780471613886
0471613886
Inventing Reality: Physics as Language by Bruce Gregory
Used - Good
Hardback
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
19881001
240
N/A
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