Contemporary physics and the limits of knowledge / Morton Tavel
- Bib ID:
- 1750703
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Tavel, Morton, 1939-
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- Description:
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- New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2002
- xi, 258 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
- ISBN:
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- 0813530768 (alkaline paper)
- 0813530776 (alkaline paper) (paperback)
- Full contents:
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- 1. Introduction
- 2. Science and Creativity
- 3. The Physical and Mental Limitations of Humans
- 4. Symmetry
- 5. Frames of Reference
- 6. The Einsteinian Attack on Space and Time
- 7. General Relativity
- 8. Metrics, Geodesics, and the Schwarzschild Solution
- 9. The Very Many: Statistical Reality
- 10. From Classical to Quantum Physics
- 11. The Chaotic World
- 12. Conclusion.
- Notes:
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- Includes index.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Subject:
- Copyright:
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- Publication date:
- 2002
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