A Question Of Physics: Conversations In Physics And Biology

Paul Buckley; F David Peat (Werner Heisenberg, Leon Rosenfeld, Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac, Roger Penrose, John Archibald Wheeler, Carl Friedrich Von Weizsacker, Ilya Prigogine, Robert Rosen, Howard Hunt Pattee, Raymond L. Somorjai, David Joseph Bohm)

ISBN 10: 0710003137 ISBN 13: 9780710003133

Published by Routledge & Kegan Paul, London, 1979

Language: English

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A Question Of Physics: Conversations In Physics And Biology

Publisher

Routledge & Kegan Paul, London

Publication Date

1979

Language

English

ISBN 10

0710003137

ISBN 13

9780710003133

Binding

Hardcover

Edition

First UK Edition

Condition

Fine

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Near Fine

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This book contains interviews with physicists, biologists, and chemists who have been involved in some of the most exciting discoveries in modern scientific thought. The conversations—with Bohm, Pattee, Penrose, Rosen, Rosenfeld, Somorjai, Weizs�cker, Wheeler, and Nobel prizewinners Heisenberg, Dirac, and Prigogine—explore issues which have shaped modern physics and those which hint at what may form the next scientific revolution.

The discussions range over a set of basic problems in physical theory and their possible solutions—the understanding of space and time, quantum and relativity theories and recent attempts to unite them—and deal with related questions in theoretical biology. The approach is non-technical, with an emphasis on the assumptions of modern science and their implications for understanding the world we live in.

The book, which originated in a highly successful radio series, provides a vivid first-hand account of some of the astounding and perplexing developments in modern science, a rare overview that will intrigue the informed non-scientist and the scientist alike.

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Dr Paul Buckley> is a physical chemist with the Science Policy Secretariat.

Dr F. David Peat is a physicist, writer, and film-maker.

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