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Einstein and the Quantum: The Quest of the Valiant Swabian

Stone, A. Douglas

9780691139685 - Einstein and the Quantum: The Quest of the Valiant Swabian
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Einstein and the Quantum reveals for the first time the full significance of Albert Einsteins contributions to quantum theory. Einstein famously rejected quantum mechanics, observing that God does not play dice. But, in fact, he thought more about the nature of atoms, molecules, and the emission and absorption of light - the core of what we now know as quantum theory - than he did about relativity. A compelling blend of physics, biography, and the history of science, Einstein and the Quantum shares the untold story of how Einstein - not Max Planck or Niels Bohr - was the driving force behind early quantum theory. It paints a vivid portrait of the iconic physicist as he grappled with the apparently contradictory nature of the atomic world, in which its invisible constituents defy the categories of classical physics, behaving simultaneously as both particle and wave. And it demonstrates how Einsteins later work on the emission and absorption of light, and on atomic gases, led directly to Erwin Schrodingers breakthrough to the modern form of quantum mechanics.

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Auteur Stone, A. Douglas
ISBN/EAN 9780691139685
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Artikelomschrijving

Einstein and the Quantum reveals for the first time the full significance of Albert Einsteins contributions to quantum theory. Einstein famously rejected quantum mechanics, observing that God does not play dice. But, in fact, he thought more about the nature of atoms, molecules, and the emission and absorption of light - the core of what we now know as quantum theory - than he did about relativity. A compelling blend of physics, biography, and the history of science, Einstein and the Quantum shares the untold story of how Einstein - not Max Planck or Niels Bohr - was the driving force behind early quantum theory. It paints a vivid portrait of the iconic physicist as he grappled with the apparently contradictory nature of the atomic world, in which its invisible constituents defy the categories of classical physics, behaving simultaneously as both particle and wave. And it demonstrates how Einsteins later work on the emission and absorption of light, and on atomic gases, led directly to Erwin Schrodingers breakthrough to the modern form of quantum mechanics.

Specificaties

Auteur Stone, A. Douglas
ISBN/EAN 9780691139685