Quantum Physics For Poets

Author : Leon M. Lederman
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1493086979
Total Pages : 339 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Quantum Physics for Poets written by Leon M. Lederman and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2024-08-06 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Quantum theory is the bedrock of contemporary physics and the basis of understanding matter in its tiniest dimensions and the vast universe as a whole. But for many, the theory remains an impenetrable enigma. Now, two physicists seek to remedy this situation by both drawing on their scientific expertise and their talent for communicating science to the general reader. In this lucid, informative book, designed for the curious, Lederman and Hill make the seemingly daunting subject of quantum physics accessible, appealing, and exciting. Their story is partly historical, covering the many "Eureka" moments when great scientists-Max Planck, Albert Einstein, Niels Bohr, Werner Heisenberg, Erwin Schrödinger, and others-struggled to come to grips with the bizarre realities that quantum research revealed. Although their findings were indisputably proven in experiments, they were so strange and counterintuitive that Einstein refused to accept quantum theory, despite its great success. The authors explain the many strange and even eerie aspects of quantum reality at the subatomic level, from "particles" that can be many places simultaneously and sometimes act more like waves, to the effect that a human can have on their movements by just observing them! Finally, the authors delve into quantum physics' latest and perhaps most breathtaking offshoots-field theory and string theory. The intricacies and ramifications of these two theories will give the reader much to ponder. In addition, the authors describe the diverse applications of quantum theory in its almost countless forms of modern technology throughout the world. Using eloquent analogies and illustrative examples, Quantum Physics for Poets renders even the most profound reaches of quantum theory understandable and something for us all to savor.

Author : Robert March
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781283387446
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Physics for Poets written by Robert March and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Leon M. Lederman
Publisher : Prometheus Books
ISBN 13 : 1616142812
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Quantum Physics for Poets written by Leon M. Lederman and published by Prometheus Books. This book was released on 2011-09-27 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this lucid, informative book, designed for the curious, a Nobel Prize laureate and a theoretical physicist make the seemingly daunting subject of quantum physics accessible, appealing, and exciting.

Author : Robert K. Logan
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 9814295949
Total Pages : 341 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Poetry of Physics and the Physics of Poetry written by Robert K. Logan and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2010 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a textbook for a survey course in physics taught without mathematics, that also takes into account the social impact and influences from the arts and society. It combines physics, literature, history and philosophy from the dawn of human life to the 21st century. It will also be of interest to the general reader.

Author : Daniel Albright
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521573054
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.5X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Quantum Poetics written by Daniel Albright and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1997-01-28 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Quantum Poetics examines the way modernist poets appropriated scientific metaphors as part of a general search for the pre-verbal origins of poetry. Daniel Albright traces Modernism's search for the elementary particles from which poems were constructed. The poetic possibilities offered by developments in scientific discourse intrigued Yeats, Eliot and Pound, writers intent on remapping the general theory of poetry. Using models supplied by physicists, Yeats sought for the basic units of poetic force, both through his sequence A Vision and through his belief in, and defence of, the purity of symbols. Pound's whole critical vocabulary, Albright claims, aims at drawing art and science together in a search for poetic precision, the tiniest textual particles that held poems together. Through a series of patient and original readings, Quantum Poetics demonstrates how modernists created a whole new way of thinking about poetry and science as two different aspects of the same quest.

Author : Jeremy Bernstein
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674035410
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Quantum Leaps written by Jeremy Bernstein and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-10-31 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How-- and how pervasively-- quantum mechanics has entered the general culture is the subject of this book, an engaging, eclectic, and thought-provoking look at the curious, boundlessly fertile intersection of scientific thought and everyday life.

Author : Victor J. Stenger
Publisher : Prometheus Books
ISBN 13 : 1615922288
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Timeless Reality written by Victor J. Stenger and published by Prometheus Books. This book was released on 2009-12-02 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A professor of physics and astronomy studies a theory that time is reversible, and explains how physicists have generally been reluctant to accept the reversibility of time because of the implied causal paradoxes. Illustrations.

Author : Peter Middleton
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022629000X
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Physics Envy written by Peter Middleton and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2015-11-04 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-301) and index.

Author : Amy Catanzano
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
ISBN 13 : 0823230082
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Multiversal written by Amy Catanzano and published by Fordham Univ Press. This book was released on 2009-08 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Multiversal, the second book by Amy Catanzano proposing a theory of quantum poetics, invites readers to explore the intersections between language, nature, science, and consciousness. Multiversal takes its name from the "multiverse," a science fiction concept that has become an accepted theory in physics. It suggests that reality comprises multiple dimensions in space and time. In form and content, this collection takes novelapproaches to the materiality of language itself, to the spacetime of poems.From the Foreword by Michael Palmer: Amy Catanzano offers us a poetic vision of multiple orders and multiple forms, of a fluid time set loose from linearity and an open space that is motile and multidimensional. The work exists at once in a future-past and in a variety of temporal modes. At one moment the scale is intimate, at another infinite. She interrogates our means of observation and measurement (the telescope, the ice-core), our mappings, our cosmic calculations, our assumptions about cause and effect. In the background, "there is a war being fought," though which of many wars--cultural, scientific, military--we are not told. In a time of displacement such as ours, she seems to say, in place of "universals" we must imagine "multiversals," in place of the fixed, the metamorphic. As much as the frame may be cosmic (micro- or macro-), it is important to remember that the work serves the vital questions of the hereand-now, "the flowering of the world," the corrosiveness of violence, the primacy of desire, the necessity of wonder. Multiversal represents an effort to see things as they are through an act of poetic reimagining, that is, to see variously within the folds and fields of the actual, where the physis, or life force, resides.

Author : Leon M. Lederman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 1616148012
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beyond the God Particle written by Leon M. Lederman and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two leading physicists discuss the importance of the Higgs Boson, the future of particle physics, and the mysteries of the universe yet to be unraveled. Starting where Nobel Laureate Leon Lederman's bestseller The God Particle left off, this incisive new book explains what's next.