Description
Product ID: | 9780141182155 |
Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
Country of Manufacture: | GB |
Series: | Penguin Modern Classics |
Title: | Physics and Philosophy |
Subtitle: | The Revolution in Modern Science |
Authors: | Author: Werner Heisenberg |
Page Count: | 176 |
Subjects: | Philosophy of science, Philosophy of science, Popular science, Physics, Popular science, Physics |
Description: | Select Guide Rating Explains the central ideas of the quantum revolution and uncertainty principle. This book reveals how words and concepts familiar in daily life can lose their meaning in the world of relativity and quantum physics. Nobel Prize winner Werner Heisenberg''s classic account explains the central ideas of the quantum revolution, and his celebrated Uncertainty Principle. Heisenberg reveals how words and concepts familiar in daily life can lose their meaning in the world of relativity and quantum physics.This in turn has profound philosophical implications for the nature of reality. |
Imprint Name: | Penguin Classics |
Publisher Name: | Penguin Books Ltd |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2000-08-03 |