Physics and Philosophy: The Revolution in Modern Science - Softcover

Heisenberg, Werner

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1989970893 ISBN 13: 9781989970898

Publisher: Minkowski Institute Press, 2022

Synopsis

This is a new publication of Werner Heisenberg's book Physics and Philosophy: The Revolution in Modern Science.

The subjects discussed in the book are:

1 An Old and a New Tradition

2 The History of Quantum Theory

3 The Copenhagen Interpretation of Quantum Theory

4 Quantum Theory and the Roots of Atomic Science

5 The Development of Philosophical Ideas Since Descartes in Comparison with the New Situation in Quantum Theory

6 The Relation of Quantum Theory to Other Parts of Natural Science

7 The Theory of Relativity

8 Criticism and Counter-proposals to the Copenhagen Interpretation of Quantum Theory

9 Quantum Theory and the Structure of Matter

10 Language and Reality in Modern Physics

11 The Role of Modern Physics in the Present Development of Human Thinking

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Edition details

• Publisher: Minkowski Institute Press
• Publication date: 2022
• ISBN 10: 1989970893
• ISBN 13: 9781989970898
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 189
• Editor: Petkov Vesselin