The Quantum Labyrinth: How Richard Feynman and John Wheeler Revolutionized Time and Reality - Tapa dura

Halpern, Paul

 
9780465097586: The Quantum Labyrinth: How Richard Feynman and John Wheeler Revolutionized Time and Reality
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ISBN 10: 0465097588 ISBN 13: 9780465097586
Editorial: Basic Books, 2017

Sinopsis

In 1939, Richard Feynman, a brilliant graduate of MIT, arrived in John Wheeler's Princeton office to report for duty as his teaching assistant. A lifelong friendship and enormously productive collaboration was born, despite sharp differences in personality. The soft-spoken Wheeler, though conservative in appearance, was a raging nonconformist full of wild ideas about the universe. The boisterous Feynman was a cautious physicist who believed only what could be tested. Yet they were complementary spirits. Their collaboration led to a complete rethinking of the nature of time and reality. It enabled Feynman to show how quantum reality is a combination of alternative, contradictory possibilities, and inspired Wheeler to develop his landmark concept of wormholes, portals to the future and past. Together, Feynman and Wheeler made sure that quantum physics would never be the same again.

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Paul Halpern is a professor of physics at the University of the Sciences in Philadelphia, and the author of fifteen popular science books, most recently Einstein's Dice and Schrödinger's Cat. He lives near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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Editorial
Basic Books
Año de publicación
2017
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0465097588
ISBN 13 
9780465097586
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Número de páginas
320
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ISBN 10:  1541672984 ISBN 13:  9781541672987
Editorial: Hachette Book Group USA, 2018
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