The Physicists' View of Nature Part 2

The Quantum Revolution
2001
ISBN: 978-0-306-46509-3
Verlag: Springer US

Buch, Englisch, 343 Seiten, Format (B × H): 183 mm x 260 mm, Gewicht: 1990 g

This book was designed as a textbook for students who need to fill their science requirement. discusses how quantum theory overthrew the objective, materialist and determinist worldviews of classical physics. The text emphasizes how quantum physics may reestablish consciousness as a causal agent in science by delving into quantum non-locality and its implications to society.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Goswami, Amit

Fachgebiete

• Naturwissenschaften Physik Physik Allgemein Theoretische Physik, Mathematische Physik, Computerphysik
• Naturwissenschaften Physik Physik Allgemein Geschichte der Physik
• Naturwissenschaften Physik Quantenphysik
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Wissenschaftstheorie, Wissenschaftsphilosophie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Wissenschaften: Theorie, Epistemologie, Methodik
• Naturwissenschaften Physik Physik Allgemein Experimentalphysik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1 From Classical Physics to Quantum Physics: A Still Aborning Paradigm Shift.- 2 Can We Determine the Metaphysics Underlying Reality?.- 3 Planck Takes a Quantum Leap.- 4 Einstein’s Photons.- 5 The Bohr Atom.- 6 The Discovery of Quantum Mechanics.- 7 Possibility Waves, Uncertainty, and Complementarity.- 8 The Copenhagen Interpretation.- 9 Atoms and Light.- 10 Atoms and Chemistry.- 11 The World of Nuclei.- 12 Elementary Particle Physics: The Quest for Elementarity.- 13 More Quantum Technology: Solid State Physics.- 14 Quantum Nonlocality.- 15 The Paradox of Schrödinger’s Cat.- 16 Speculations About the Brain: Consciousness Within the Quantum.- 17 Consciousness Enters Physics.- 18 The Idealist Interpretation.- 19 A Summary Tour of Quantumland.- 20 From Deep to Deeper to Deepest Ecology.- 21 The reconciliation with David Bohm’s Physics.- 22 The Gifts of Quantum Physics.- 23 Quantum Creativity.- 24 Integrating Dualities.- 25 Quantum Cosmology and Consciousness.- 26 Anomalies in Biology and the Need for a Paradigm Shift.- 27 Toward a Paradigm Shift in Biology.- 28 What Is Life?.- 29 The Quantum Theory of Punctuated Equilibrium.- 30 Evolution and Morphogenesis.- 31 Creativity in Biological Systems.- 32 Consciousness and Evolution.- 33 The Challenge of Trans-Modernism.- 34 Epilogue: God and the Physicists* View of Nature.