Ebook: Conversations on the Dark Secrets of Physics

Preface; Contents; Prologue-A Warning; 1 Relativity Space and Time of the Physicist; 2 Statics The Science of No Motion; 3 A Revolution Ignored, A Revolution Repressed; 4 Newton; 5 "Hypothesis Non Fingo"; 6 Statistical Mechanics Disorder Is Also a Law; 7 Electircity and Magnetism or the Structure of Vacuum; 8 The Existence of Atoms; 9 The Correspondence Principle; 10 Wave-Particle Dualism; 11 The Uncertainty Principle; 12 Uses of New Knowledge; Epilogue After the Revolution; Answers; Index.;A personal tour through the world of physics--from Newton's laws to quantum mechanics--by one of the most celebrated physicists of the twentieth century.