Physics and Beyond (World Perspectives) - Encounters and Conversations

Werner Heisenberg

HarperCollins Publishers Ltd

1971

264 páginas

8h 48m

ISBN-10: 0049250205

This little book of reminiscences by Werner Heisenberg is a treasure. Dr. Heisenberg brings the era between the two world wars to vivid life, and recounts his earnest and wide-ranging conversations with Niels Bohr, Erwin Schrödinger, Albert Einstein, Otto Hahn, and many of the other scientists who together groped their way toward what is now called 'quantum mechanics'. The text is non-technical and accessible to the reader with no knowledge of physics. The questions Heisenberg and his colleagues were discussing back in the 1920a are still very much with us, and, with 'big science' representing itself with increasing stridency as the modern replacement for the world's religions, should be pondered by everyone, scientists and non-scientists alike.