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YOU ARE WRONG, MR EINSTEIN!: NEWTON, EINSTEIN, HEISENBERG AND FEYNMAN DISCUSSING QUANTUM MECHANICS
With Foreword by S.L. Glashow, Werner Heisenberg, and Richard Feynman find quantum physics fascinating and necessary for understanding the atoms. Albert Einstein dislikes it and Isaac Newton does not understand it, which is not surprising. This is the scenario for animated discussions between five people. Harald Fritzsch brings together Newton and the three great physicists of the 20th century in an imaginary meeting. His “alter ego” Adrian Haller moderates the discussions.By means of questions and answers the whole cosmos of quantum physics is described in a simple way, easily understandable non-physicists. The beginnings of quantum theory and atomic physics as well as the importance of quantum physics for our daily life — these and many more topics are the subjects of the interesting and fascinating discussions.
- GenresPhysicsNonfictionScience
200 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 2008
About the author
Harald Fritzsch
42 books6 followersGerman theoretical physicist known for his contributions to the theory of quarks, the development of Quantum Chromodynamics and the great unification of the standard model of particle physics.
After completing his education in Zwickau 1961, he became Soldier of the Nationale Volksarmee of the GDR. He studied Physics in Leipzig from 1963 to 1968. After fleeing to West Germany, he continued his studies in Munich where he finished his Ph.D. under the supervision of Heinrich Mitter.
In 1970 Fritzsch visited the Aspen Center of Physics, where he met Murray Gell-Mann. They started a collaboration, first in Aspen, later at the California Institute of Technology. In 1971 they introduced the concept of the colour charge quantum number which allowed them in collaboration with William A. Bardeen to explain the decay rate of pions. In the fall of 1971 Fritzsch and Gell-Mann moved to Geneva in Switzerland, where they worked together at CERN. They proposed a gauge theory for the strong interaction, which now is called Quantumchromodynamics. In September 1972 they moved back to Caltech. In 1975 Fritzsch published a paper together with Peter Minkowski in which they proposed the symmetry group SO as the symmetry of the grand unified theory which has become a standard theory. In 1976 Fritzsch moved to CERN. After working for one year at the University of Wuppertal and the University of Bern, Fritzsch became professor at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich in 1980.
Fritzsch worked also on "composite models" of leptons and quarks, mass matrices of quarks and leptons, weak decays of heavy quarks, cosmology and the fundamental constants of physics. He retired in 2008.
After completing his education in Zwickau 1961, he became Soldier of the Nationale Volksarmee of the GDR. He studied Physics in Leipzig from 1963 to 1968. After fleeing to West Germany, he continued his studies in Munich where he finished his Ph.D. under the supervision of Heinrich Mitter.
In 1970 Fritzsch visited the Aspen Center of Physics, where he met Murray Gell-Mann. They started a collaboration, first in Aspen, later at the California Institute of Technology. In 1971 they introduced the concept of the colour charge quantum number which allowed them in collaboration with William A. Bardeen to explain the decay rate of pions. In the fall of 1971 Fritzsch and Gell-Mann moved to Geneva in Switzerland, where they worked together at CERN. They proposed a gauge theory for the strong interaction, which now is called Quantumchromodynamics. In September 1972 they moved back to Caltech. In 1975 Fritzsch published a paper together with Peter Minkowski in which they proposed the symmetry group SO as the symmetry of the grand unified theory which has become a standard theory. In 1976 Fritzsch moved to CERN. After working for one year at the University of Wuppertal and the University of Bern, Fritzsch became professor at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich in 1980.
Fritzsch worked also on "composite models" of leptons and quarks, mass matrices of quarks and leptons, weak decays of heavy quarks, cosmology and the fundamental constants of physics. He retired in 2008.
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June 22, 2015
Bir sürü soru ile kitaba başlayıp daha fazla soru ile bitirdim. Çok az fizik bilenler için bir miktar sabır ve araştırma gerektiren okuma süreci sonucunda kesinlikle ufuk açıcı bir kitap. İnsanı daha fazla fizik öğrenmeye itiyor.
February 15, 2015
Having like the author's previous book in this style, this one was a disappointment.
Firstly, I got no sense of character. If you're going to have four people talking, then they need to be different enough that you notice. I realised I would be reading a paragraph and, despite having read the name of the speaker at the top of that paragraph, I would have no idea who was talking. All too much the same (OK, if it was a question, then it was probably Newton, but that was about it!)
Secondly, the level of this was super-weird. I studied undergraduate quantum physics in 2015/16 (this OU module). Had I read this book before then, I would have been totally lost. New things were introduced quickly and without reasonable explanation, e.g. how you distinguish your l from your m and your n isn't something you just pick up in two pages.
As I was reading it after I'd done the study, it was a bit less confusing, serving as a reminder rather than an introduction, but it was still way too confusing. It was clearly more of a 'Sunday afternoon studious book' than 'bedtime reading', so I had to give up on it for the latter purpose.
Essentially, this is QM without the maths, which I suppose is exactly what is advertsed. It's just the QM isn't slowed down or simplified in the way you might expect if you were trying to appeal to a 'without the maths' audience.
Firstly, I got no sense of character. If you're going to have four people talking, then they need to be different enough that you notice. I realised I would be reading a paragraph and, despite having read the name of the speaker at the top of that paragraph, I would have no idea who was talking. All too much the same (OK, if it was a question, then it was probably Newton, but that was about it!)
Secondly, the level of this was super-weird. I studied undergraduate quantum physics in 2015/16 (this OU module). Had I read this book before then, I would have been totally lost. New things were introduced quickly and without reasonable explanation, e.g. how you distinguish your l from your m and your n isn't something you just pick up in two pages.
As I was reading it after I'd done the study, it was a bit less confusing, serving as a reminder rather than an introduction, but it was still way too confusing. It was clearly more of a 'Sunday afternoon studious book' than 'bedtime reading', so I had to give up on it for the latter purpose.
Essentially, this is QM without the maths, which I suppose is exactly what is advertsed. It's just the QM isn't slowed down or simplified in the way you might expect if you were trying to appeal to a 'without the maths' audience.
April 1, 2012
I chose this book for my Honors science course, but I was quite disappointed. All the scientists presented have no depth of personality beyond just explaining quantum mechanics, and the descriptions were much too technical for the students in my class. The author throws lots of scientific terminology around without explaining it. Overall I was not impressed with this book. I do not recommend it to either scientists or anyone else.
September 23, 2013
Author through the dialogues between eminent physicists tries to present a historical drivethrough the development of physics and atomic model. It was very hard for me to follow through the quantum physics explained in this book. Everything seems to be coming out of thin air and although author tries to give some intuition inbetween, I couldn't follow through. But I loved the style of writing giving personal aspect of discussion.
July 31, 2019
Söz konusu fizikçileri birbiriyle konuşturma fikri güzel, ama bunun uygulanışı vasat. Fizik bilgim oldukça az, bu yüzden okurken hesaplamaları atladım ve bazı terimlerle ilgili internette araştırma yapmam gerekti. Bu kitap için “Kuantum fiziği hakkında genel bir fikir edinmemi sağladı” diyebilirim.
March 1, 2022
Der Versuch einer Einführung in die Quantenphysik. Leider nicht das Richtige für mich.
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