Einstein’s Dice and Schrödinger’s Cat: How Two Great Minds Battled Quantum Randomness to Create a Unified Theory of Physics
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| Rating | : | 4.16 (808 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B00VAVUTAY |
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| Number of Pages | : | 336 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-11-30 |
| Language | : | English |
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"Einstein's and Schrodinger's Heroic Attempts at a Theory of Everything" according to Ronald L. Mallett. Paul Halpern has written an excellent comparative biography of Einstein and Schrodinger and their journey towards a unified field theory. Halpern's writing style is quite engaging and he is able to explain sophisticated concepts in a clear and understandable manner.As a profess. Fantastic read for science enthusiasts Paul Halpern’s Einstein’s Dice and Schrodinger’s Cat tells the story of these two prominent scholars from their upbringing to their schooling which led to their profound work to their legacies near the end of their lives. Dr. Halpern goes through great detail,. Scientist are, after all, human It doesn't hurt to have a fair knowledge of relativity theory and quantum theory when reading this book, but it is certainly not necessary. Halpern makes the fascinating story of personal relationships and animosities, false starts and breakthroughs, unconventional marital arra
As Halpern explains, the recent discovery of the Higgs boson makes the standard model - the closest thing we have to a unified theory - nearly complete. Even though it was Einstein's own theories that made quantum mechanics possible, both he and Schrödinger could not bear the idea that the universe was, at its most fundamental level, random. And while Einstein and Schrödinger tried and failed to explain everything in the cosmos through pure geometry, the development of string theory has, in its own quantum way, brought this idea back into vogue. Both of these famous images arose from these two men's dissatisfaction with quantum weirdness and with their assertion that underneath it all, there must be some essentially deterministic world. As the Second World War raged, both men struggled to produce a theory that would describe in full the universe's ultimate design, first as collaborators, then as competitors. They both ultimately failed in their search for a grand unified theory - not only because quantum mechanics is true but because Einstein and Schrödinger were also missing a key component: of the four forces we recognize today (gravity, electromagnetism, the weak force, and the strong force), only gr