The quest for unity : the adventure of physics
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The quest for unity : the adventure of physics
Oxford University Press, 1999
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La quête de l'unité : l'adventure de la physique
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [133]-149) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Quantum physicist Etienne Klein and astrophysicist Marc Lachieze-Rey present and comment on the successive unifications that have marked the fundamental advances in physics. A good deal of modern theoretical physics is lightly and gracefully explained, rooted in a philosophical examination of the motivations that drive physicists and physics. The book is a discourse on the nature of elegance and beauty in physics, seeking to explain how and why beauty is a reliable
guide in the ongoing search for Truth in physics.
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- The Greek Conceptions of Unity
- The Official Birth of Physics
- The History of Physics: A Series of Unifications
- Modern Unifications
- The Unity of Physics
- Dreams of Unity at the Close of the Twentieth Century
- Conclusion
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