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Quantum Legacies Dispatches from an Uncertain World
ISBN: HB: 9780226698052, University of Chicago Press, April 2020
360 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm, 47 halftones
The ideas at the root of quantum theory remain stubbornly, famously bizarre: a solid world reduced to puffs of probability; particles that tunnel through walls; cats suspended in zombielike states, neither alive nor dead; and twinned particles that s...
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£21,00
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Tunnel Visions The Rise and Fall of the Superconducting Super Collider
ISBN: PB: 9780226598901, ISBN: HB: 9780226294797, University of Chicago Press, August 2018
480 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 47 halftones
Starting in the 1950s, US physicists dominated the search for elementary particles; aided by the association of this research with national security, they held this position for decades. In an effort to maintain their hegemony and track down the elus...
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To Save the Phenomena An Essay on the Idea of Physical Theory from Plato to Galileo
ISBN: PB: 9780226169217, University of Chicago Press, October 2016
152 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm
Duhem's 1908 essay questions the relation between physical theory and metaphysics and, more specifically, between astronomy and physics-an issue still of importance today. He critiques the answers given by Greek thought, Arabic science, medieval Chri...
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Newton Kosmos – Bios – Logos
ISBN: PB: 9788024623795, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, September 2015
170 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm
Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! In 1936, following the sale of Newton's unpublished manuscripts at auction, the scientific world was shocked: it turned out that Newton's writings in physics and mathematics, often conside...
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Probing the Sky with Radio Waves From Wireless Technology to the Development of Atmospheric Science
ISBN: PB: 9780226274393, ISBN: HB: 9780226015194, University of Chicago Press, May 2015
360 pp., 23x15 cm, 3 halftones, 68 line illus.
By the late nineteenth century, engineers and experimental scientists generally knew how radio waves behaved, and by 1901 scientists were able to manipulate them to transmit messages across long distances. What no one could understand, however, was w...
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Condensed Course of Quantum Mechanics
ISBN: PB: 9788024623214, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, March 2014
216 pp., 22.8x17.8 cm, 136 mathematical drawings
Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! This book represents a concise summary of nonrelativistic quantum mechanics for physics students at the university level. The text covers essential topics, from general mathematical formal...
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Fermi Remembered
ISBN: PB: 9780226100883, ISBN: HB: 9780226121116, University of Chicago Press, November 2013
296 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 34 halftones, 84 line drawings
Nobel laureate and scientific luminary Enrico Fermi (1901-1954) was a pioneering nuclear physicist whose contributions to the field were numerous, profound, and lasting. Best known for his involvement with the Manhattan Project and his work at Los Al...
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Pseudoscience Wars Immanuel Velikovsky and the Birth of the Modern Fringe
ISBN: PB: 9780226101729, ISBN: HB: 9780226304427, University of Chicago Press, August 2013
304 pp., 23x15 cm
Properly analyzed, the collective mythological and religious writings of humanity reveal that around 1500 BC, a comet swept perilously close to Earth, triggering widespread natural disasters and threatening the destruction of all life before settling...
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Time Travel and Warp Drives A Scientific Guide to Shortcuts through Time and Space
ISBN: PB: 9780226045481, ISBN: HB: 9780226224985, University of Chicago Press, April 2013
280 pp., 23x15 cm, 33 halftones, 9 line illus.
Sci-fi makes it look so easy. Receive a distress call from Alpha Centauri? No problem: punch the warp drive and you're there in minutes. Facing a catastrophe that can't be averted? Just pop back in the timestream and stop it before it starts. But for...
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Unsimple Truths Science, Complexity, and Policy
ISBN: PB: 9780226006628, ISBN: HB: 9780226532622, University of Chicago Press, March 2013
160 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 7 halftones
The world is complex, but acknowledging its complexity requires an appreciation for the many roles context plays in shaping natural phenomena. In "Unsimple Truths", Sandra Mitchell argues that the long-standing scientific and philosophical deference...
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