Quantum

基本信息

Format:Paperback / softback 464 pages, Illustrations, unspecified

Publisher:Icon Books Ltd

Imprint:Icon Books Ltd

ISBN:9781848310353

Published:2 Apr 2009

Weight:376g

Dimensions:196 x 129 x 30 (mm)

页面参数仅供参考，具体以实物为准

书籍简介

对于大多数人来说，量子理论是神秘莫测而坚不可摧的科学的代名词。然而多年来，科学家自己也同样感到困惑。曼吉特·库马尔(Manjit Kumar)在书中讲述了这场基础科学革命的戏剧性和精辟的历史，以及其核心的分裂性辩论。量子理论着眼于我们世界的基本组成部分，即粒子和过程，没有它们，世界就不可能存在。然而60年来，大多数物理学家相信量子理论否认现实本身的存在。

在这篇科学史上的杰作中，曼吉特·库马尔展示了物理学的黄金时代是如何引发20世纪z伟大的智力辩论的。量子理论很奇怪。1905年，阿尔伯特·爱因斯坦(Albert Einstein)提出光是粒子，而不是波，这与一个世纪以来的实验背道而驰。海森堡的不确定原理和薛定谔著名的猫也同样奇怪。如同玻尔说，如果你没有被量子理论所震惊，你就不会真正理解它。

当“Quantum”将科学置于现代剧变的背景下时，库马尔的核心是爱因斯坦和玻尔在现实本质和科学灵魂上的冲突。“玻尔洗脑了整整一代物理学家，以为问题已经解决了”，诺贝尔物理学奖获得者穆雷·盖尔曼（Murray Gell-Mann）对此感叹。但是在《量子理论》一书中，库马尔将爱因斯坦带回了量子辩论的中心。对于着迷那些复杂而激动人心的故事以及杰出人物的读者来说，《量子理论》是必不可少的读物。

Manjit Kumar's epic history of the band of young men and their challenging theories which changed the way we see the very building blocks of our world.

For most people, quantum theory is a byword for mysterious, impenetrable science. And yet for many years it was equally baffling for scientists themselves. In this magisterial book, Manjit Kumar gives a dramatic and superbly-written history of this fundamental scientific revolution, and the divisive debate at its core. Quantum theory looks at the very building blocks of our world, the particles and processes without which it could not exist. Yet for 60 years most physicists believed that quantum theory denied the very existence of reality itself.

In this tour de force of science history, Manjit Kumar shows how the golden age of physics ignited the greatest intellectual debate of the twentieth century. Quantum theory is weird.In 1905, Albert Einstein suggested that light was a particle, not a wave, defying a century of experiments. Werner Heisenberg's uncertainty principle and Erwin Schrodinger's famous dead-and-alive cat are similarly strange. As Niels Bohr said, if you weren't shocked by quantum theory, you didn't really understand it.

While 'Quantum' sets the science in the context of the great upheavals of the modern age, Kumar's centrepiece is the conflict between Einstein and Bohr over the nature of reality and the soul of science. 'Bohr brainwashed a whole generation of physicists into believing that the problem had been solved', lamented the Nobel Prize-winning physicist Murray Gell-Mann. But in 'Quantum', Kumar brings Einstein back to the centre of the quantum debate. 'Quantum' is the essential read for anyone fascinated by this complex and thrilling story and by the band of brilliant men at its heart.

编辑推荐

美亚2010年度十大科学畅销图书

英国2009年度萨缪尔·约翰逊非小说类图书奖

一本超级对撞之书！论战中决出两大对立阵营：爱因斯坦VS玻尔和一群才华横溢的年轻人，精彩记述科学领域中根本性的一场革命！

门外汉都能读懂的世界科学名著。

作者简介

曼吉特·库马尔(Manjit Kumar)，获物理学和哲学双学位。《普罗米修斯》杂志的创刊编辑，《科学，亦或理性退失》一书的作者之一，《连线》网站的顾问级科学编辑。为《卫报》、《泰晤士报·文学增刊》、《爱尔兰时报》等刊物撰稿、写评论。他与妻子和两个儿子居住在伦敦北部。

Manjit Kumar was the founding editor of Prometheus, a journal that covered the arts, sciences and humanities, and has written for various publications including the Guardian, the TES and the Irish Times. He is the co-author of Science and the Retreat from Reason, an adapted chapter of which Michael Frayn described as 'the clearest account I've read yet of the development of quantum mechanics'. He lives in north London with his wife and two sons.