Quantum Theory is the most revolutionary discovery in physics since Newton. This book gives a lucid, exciting, and accessible account of the surprising and counterintuitive ideas that shape our understanding of the sub-atomic world. It does not disguise the problems of interpretation that still remain unsettled 75 years after the initial discoveries. The main text makes no use ...
Quantum Theory is the most revolutionary discovery in physics since Newton. This book gives a lucid, exciting, and accessible account of the surprising and counterintuitive ideas that shape our understanding of the sub-atomic world. It does not disguise the problems of interpretation that still remain unsettled 75 years after the initial discoveries. The main text makes no use of equations, but there is a Mathematical Appendix for those desiring stronger fare. Uncertainty, probabilistic physics, complementarity, the problematic character of measurement, and decoherence are among the many topics discussed.
Within a year, Max Planck, now a professor of physics in Berlin, had found a remarkable way out of the dilemma. He told his son that he believed he had made a discovery of equal significance to those of Newton. It might have seemed a grandiose claim to make, but Planck was simply speaking the sober truth.
Classical physics considered that radiation oozed continuously in and out of the black body, much as water might ooze in and out of a sponge. In the smoothly changing world of classical physics, no other supposition seemed at all plausible. Yet Planck made a contrary proposal, suggesting that radiation was emitted or absorbed from time to time in packets of energy of a definite size. He specified that the energy content of one of these quanta (as the packets were called) would be proporti... (查看原文)
1 有用 雪地里的水煮蛋 2011-09-22 23:36:47
要命,好难懂啊,听的时候不断的倒回去重新听,不知道看写出来的是否好点。
3 有用 阅微草堂 2014-03-23 01:26:31
适合高中三年级的阅读和人文学科的学生阅读
0 有用 王天一 Sirius 2015-07-29 15:52:19
Positivism, realism和pragmatism的部分很诚恳。
0 有用 海伦恩斯 2018-11-08 14:26:48
“The world is not only stranger than we thought, it is stranger than we could think. ” 还是不挑战这种理科的话题了
0 有用 rorschach 2025-12-22 19:24:58 上海
‘We know more than we can tell’