[ FreeCourseWeb.com ] Einstein Defiant: Genius Versus Genius in the Quantum Revolution



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English | ISBN: 0309096170 | 2004 | 356 pages | PDF | 17 MB

"I find the idea quite intolerable that an electron exposed to radiation should choose of its own free will, not only its moment to jump off, but also its direction. In that case, I would rather be a cobbler, or even an employee in a gaming house, than a physicist." -Albert Einstein

A scandal hovers over the history of 20th century physics. Albert Einstein -- the century's greatest physicist -- was never able to come to terms with quantum mechanics, the century's greatest theoretical achievement. For physicists who routinely use both quantum laws and Einstein's ideas, this contradiction can be almost too embarrassing to dwell on. Yet Einstein was one of the founders of quantum physics and he spent many years preaching the quantum's importance and its revolutionary nature.

The Danish genius Neils Bohr was another founder of quantum physics. He had managed to solve one of the few physics problems that Einstein ever shied away from, linking quantum mathematics with a new model of the atom. This leap immediately yielded results that explained electron behavior and the periodic table of the elements.

Despite their mutual appreciation of the quantum's importance, these two giants of modern physics never agreed on the fundamentals of their work. In fact, they clashed repeatedly throughout the 1920s, arguing first over Einstein's theory of "light quanta"(photons), then over Niels Bohr's short-lived theory that denied the conservation of energy at the quantum level, and climactically over the new quantum mechanics that Bohr enthusiastically embraced and Einstein stubbornly defied.

This contest of visions stripped the scientific imagination naked. Einstein was a staunch realist, demanding to know the physical reasons behind physical events. At odds with this approach was Bohr's more pragmatic perspective that favored theories that worked, even if he might not have a corresponding explanation of the underlying reality. Powerful and illuminating, Einstein Defiant is the first book to capture the soul and the science that inspired this dramatic duel, revealing the personalities and the passions -- and, in the end, what was at stake for the world.

Table of Contents

Front Matter

A RADICAL FACT RESISTED<br> 1 The Opposite of an Intriguer

2 Not German at All

3 I Never Fully Understood It

4 Independence and Inner Freedom

5 A Mercy of Fate

6 Picturesque Phrases

7 Scientific Dada

8 Such a Devil of a Fellow

9 Intuition and Inspiration

10 Bold, Not to Say Reckless

11 A Completely New Lesson

12 Slaves to Time and Space

13 Where All Weaker Imaginations Wither

14 A Triumph of Einstein Over Bohr

A RADICAL THEORY CREATED<br> 15 Something Deeply Hidden

16 Completely Solved

17 Exciting and Exacting Times

18 Intellectual Drunkenness

19 The Observant Executrix

20 It Might Look Crazy

21 Taking Nothing Solemnly

22 How Much More Gratifying

A RADICAL UNDERSTANDING DEFIED<br> 23 Sorcerer's Multiplication

24 Adding Two Nonsenses

25 Admiration and Suspicion

26 An Unrelenting Fanatic

27 The Secret of the Old One

28 Indeterminacy

29 A Very Pleasant Talk

30 The Dream of His Life

31 The Saddest Chapter

32 A Reality Independent of Man

33 A Certain Unreasonableness

Afterword

Bibliography

Sources

Index



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