The beautiful invisible : creativity, imagination, and theoretical physics /

"The realm of theoretical physics is teeming with abstract and beautiful concepts. And the task of imagining them is one that demands profound creativity, argues Giovanni Vignale. Explaining them is curiously akin to the craft of poets, or magical realist novelists such as Borges, and Musil, or...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Vignale, Giovanni, 1957- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2011]
Temas:
Physics > Philosophy.
Physique > Philosophie.
SCIENCE > Energy.
SCIENCE > Mechanics > General.
SCIENCE > Physics > General.
Physics > Philosophy
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Reality is invisible
  • The way of the abstract
  • Limits
  • Laws are made to be broken
  • Of first and last things
  • Representations
  • The invisible light
  • The double helix
  • Quantum mechanics: the triumph of the abstract in the cockpit
  • Tales of quantum reality
  • The spinning electron and other metaphors
  • Margarita.

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