Inventing Reality
Physics as Language
Bruce Gregory(Author)
Wiley (Publisher)
Published on 31. May 1990
Book
Paperback/Softback
240 pages
978-0-471-52482-3 (ISBN)
Description
Tracing the history of the most fundamental physics concepts, "Inventing Reality" shows that physics is not the discovery of the ready-made laws of nature, but an imaginative vision of how the world might be put together. The book uses unscientific language to explain complex ideas, and draws on the work of such modern physicists as Bohr, Einstein and Weinberg to demonstrate the 20th-century origins of seemingly radical ideas.
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Series
Edition
New edition
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
New edition
Illustrations
Ill.
Dimensions
Height: 52 mm
Width: 28 mm
Weight
340 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-471-52482-3 (9780471524823)
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Content
In the Beginning Was the Word...; The Invaluable Concept of Force; The Indispensable Idea of Fields; The Ingenious Notion of Atoms; The Unimaginable Unity of Spacetime; The Imponderable Nature of Matter; The Intransigent Presence of Paradox; The Inexhaustible Fecundity of Space; The Improbable Prevalence of Symmetry; W, Z Fields; The Ineffable Color of Quarks; The Unquestionable Imagination of Physicists; The Inscrutable Essence of Mathematics; The Unspeakable Power of Language; The Last Word; Epilogue; Appendices; Notes; Bibliography; Index.