- Rilegato: 469 pagine
- Editore: Oxford Univ Pr (T) (15 aprile 2011)
- Lingua: Inglese
- ISBN-10: 0199566844
- ISBN-13: 978-0199566846
- Peso di spedizione: 771 g
- Media recensioni: 5.0 su 5 stelle Visualizza tutte le recensioni (1 recensione cliente)
The Quantum Story: A history in 40 moments
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7 di 7 persone hanno trovato utile la seguente recensione
Di Temugin
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Un libro delizioso per chiunque ami la scienza, e in particolare la fisica. La storia della teoria scientifica più assurda, più buffa, più incomprensibile che abbiamo, eppure anche la più efficace e la più potente delle teorie scientifiche esistenti: la meccanica quantistica. Una teoria che ci mostra davvero a fondo quanto la nostra comune immagine della realtà sia profondamente sbagliata. Raccontata nella maniera più vivace e accattivante attraverso 40 brevi "momenti" chiave, in cui la teoria è stata intravista, concepita, compresa, testata, applicata, messa in questione, da una straordinaria fila di personaggi, da Planck e Einstein, fino ai nostri giorni. Ciascun "momento" è un ritratto semplice e vivo, molto umano, molto leggibile, molto semplice, di un passo avanti cruciale nella comprensione moderna della struttura del mondo. Alla fine, si ha la sensazione di avere capito la fisica contemporanea meglio che in un qualunque libro di testo o di divulgazione. Il libro si legge d'un fiato, o si centellina un po' alla volta, un capitoletto dopo l'altro. Un piacere per l'intelligenza, e una bellissima descrizione di come funziona davvero la scienza.
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A delicious book on the strangest of the scientific theories.
7 aprile 2011
Di Temugin
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A delicious book for anybody who loves science and especially physics. The story of the most absurd, funny, incomprehensible theory we have, and still the most effective and powerful of all physical theories: quantum mechanics. A theory that truly shows how reality is different from the common idea we have about it. The story is told in a lively and capturing way, via 40 shorts key "moments", when the theory has been glimpsed, conceived, understood, tested, questioned and applied, by an extraordinary sequence of characters from Planck and Einstein, via Feynman, until our days. Each such "moment" is a lively, very readable, very simple, very human portrait of a crucial step ahead in the modern understanding of the strange and deep structure of reality. The beauty of the book is that it concedes little or nothing to wild unproven speculations or dreams about "what the world might be". It is established physics, and still it is more strange and magic than many current fashionable speculations. At the end, one feels as having understood contemporary physics better than from a textbook or a standard popular science account. A book to be read in a night, or sip bit by bit, one short chapter after the other. A pleasure for intelligence and an extraordinary description of how science actually works.
28 di 29 persone hanno trovato utile la seguente recensione
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crisp writing and some fresh insights
29 giugno 2011
Di Nigel Kirk
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Jim Baggott is taking on a path well travelled in this recounting of the quantum story. His mode of travel works well, concentrate on the human element, stretch the reader with the technical details and don't oversimplify.
You don't get a Guernsey telling this kind of history without really knowing your stuff, and Baggott shows that he does. For the early chapters, the explanations of quantum theory are as good as any I have read - De Broglie's dual wave-particle hypothesis, Heisenberg's matrix mechanics and Born's rationalisation of the wave function are stand-outs. The shadow of Einstein falls over all players and debate, and Baggott's explanations of the gedankenexperiments of Einstein and others enrich the story.
Baggott's rendition of the middle era of quantum theory after WWII gets a little turgid, with many layers of detail hanging a little limply without more mathematical backbone. The evolution and testing of the Standard Model was laborious in real life, so I guess the story needs to impart some of that. Again, Baggott really knows his stuff so, while this era is slow to wade through, I expect the index will provide the reader with a good reference to be reminded of an overview or context on specific points long after the back cover is closed. The modern era is well described and wide-ranging to help the reader see how topics such as string theory and supersymmetry have influenced modern quantum physics.
Baggott's writing is crisp and his insights and anecdotes are told, or retold, in a fresh style. It's a long story and worth the investment.
You don't get a Guernsey telling this kind of history without really knowing your stuff, and Baggott shows that he does. For the early chapters, the explanations of quantum theory are as good as any I have read - De Broglie's dual wave-particle hypothesis, Heisenberg's matrix mechanics and Born's rationalisation of the wave function are stand-outs. The shadow of Einstein falls over all players and debate, and Baggott's explanations of the gedankenexperiments of Einstein and others enrich the story.
Baggott's rendition of the middle era of quantum theory after WWII gets a little turgid, with many layers of detail hanging a little limply without more mathematical backbone. The evolution and testing of the Standard Model was laborious in real life, so I guess the story needs to impart some of that. Again, Baggott really knows his stuff so, while this era is slow to wade through, I expect the index will provide the reader with a good reference to be reminded of an overview or context on specific points long after the back cover is closed. The modern era is well described and wide-ranging to help the reader see how topics such as string theory and supersymmetry have influenced modern quantum physics.
Baggott's writing is crisp and his insights and anecdotes are told, or retold, in a fresh style. It's a long story and worth the investment.
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Tough going
8 agosto 2011
Di Cat on a PC©
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This appears by all accounts a thoroughly well researched work. But, it is tough going. If you don't have a grasp of mathematics, this can, in some places, bog you down. But if you have more than just a passing interest in quantum physics, then this should not be a discouragement, as there is much in this book that can be entertaining and enlightening. Particularly if you are interested in the historical development of this area of science.
The Kindle version is well laid out with 'clickable' footnotes.
As someone who is not mathematically inclined but interested in the physical (and not so physical) make-up of our world, this has been a good find.
The Kindle version is well laid out with 'clickable' footnotes.
As someone who is not mathematically inclined but interested in the physical (and not so physical) make-up of our world, this has been a good find.
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