Glimpsing Reality - Ideas in Physics and the Link to Biology

Informationen zum Autor Paul Buckley, F. David Peat Klappentext Explores issues which have shaped modern physics and which hint at what may form the scientific revolution. This book discusses the understanding of time and space! quantum and relativity theories and attempts to unite them and related questions in theoretical biology. Zusammenfassung In this volume, physicists, biologists and chemists, who have been involved in some of the most exciting discoveries in modern scientific thought explore issues which have shaped modern physics and which hint at what may form the next scientific revolution. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part 1 Conversations; Chapter 1 Werner Heisenberg; Chapter 2 Leon Rosenfeld; Chapter 3 David Joseph Bohm; Chapter 4 Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker; Chapter 5 Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac; Chapter 6 Roger Penrose; Chapter 7 John Archibald Wheeler; Chapter 8 Ilya Prigogine; Chapter 9 Robert Rosen, Howard Hunt Pattee, and Raymond L. Somorjai: a Symposium in theoretical biology; Chapter 10 F. David Peat and Paul Buckley: reflections after twenty years; Part 2 Essays; Chapter 11 Paul Buckley: evolution and quantum consciousness; Chapter 12 Robert Rosen: the Schrödinger question: What is life? fifty years later; Appendix: the troubles of quantum theory; Glossary;

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Paul & F David Buckley & Peat
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 15.08.2008
• EAN: 9780415474399
• ISBN: 978-0-415-47439-9
• Seiten: 218
• Serie: Routledge Library Editions: History & Philosophy of Science
• Themen: Naturwissenschaften, Medizin, Informatik, Technik > Physik, Astronomie; SCIENCE / Physics / General, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Biology, Physics, Biology, life sciences