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Erwin schrödinger and werner heisenberg taught us thatplayers take on the role of a cat physicist such as albert felinestein, sally prride, or neil degrasse tabby! date first available: 2 feb
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Oxfam bookshop cheltenham in this book, one of the world's brain scientists takes us on a dazzling tour that covers such topics as computers, evolution, descartes, schrodinger, and the nature of perception, language, and individualitythis book ponders connections between psychology and physics, medicine, philosphy and moresee oxfam website for delivery information read morethe book argues that biology provides the key to understanding the brainunderlying his argument is the evolutionary view that the mind arose at a definite time in history
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See oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam bookshop cheltenham taking the reader on a step-by-step tour of the key players of quantum theory, and explaining such concepts as heisenberg's uncertainty principle, non-locality and schrodinger's cat, this text aims to provide a clear introduction to the theories which have shaped current thinking in
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Oxfam shop worcester 'this is about gob-smacking science at the far end of reasonquantum theory is weirdin , albert einstein suggested that light was a particle, not a wave, defying a century of experimentsas niels bohr said, if you weren't shocked by quantum theory, you didn't really understand itbut in "quantum", kumar brings einstein back to the centre of the quantum debatetake it nice and easy and savour the experience of your mind being blown without recourse to hallucinogens' nicholas lezard, guardian for most people, quantum theory is a byword for mysterious, impenetrable science'bohr brainwashed a whole generation of physicists into believing that the problem had been solved', lamented the nobel prize-winning physicist murray gell-mannin this magisterial book, manjit kumar gives a dramatic and superbly-written history of this fundamental scientific revolution, and the divisive debate at its corein this tour de force of science history, manjit kumar shows how the golden age of physics ignited the greatest intellectual debate of the twentieth century"quantum" is the essential read for anyone fascinated by this complex and thrilling story and by the band of brilliant men at its heartand yet for many years it was equally baffling for scientists themselvessee oxfam website for delivery information read morewhile "quantum" sets the science in the context of the great upheavals of the modern age, kumar's centrepiece is the conflict between einstein and bohr over the nature of reality and the soul of sciencequantum theory looks at the very building blocks of our world, the particles and processes without which it could not existwerner heisenberg's uncertainty principle and erwin schrodinger's famous dead-and-alive cat are similarly strangeyet for 60 years most physicists believed that quantum theory denied the very existence of reality itself
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