爱因斯坦与量子:勇敢的斯瓦比亚人的探索（修订版） Einstein and the Quantum: The Quest of the Valiant Swabian (Revised)

基本信息

Format：Paperback | 344 pages

Dimensions: 152 x 235 x 20.32mm | 567g

Publication date: 06 Oct 2015

Publisher：Princeton University Press

Imprint: Princeton University Press

ISBN: 9780691168562

页面参数仅供参考，具体以实物为准

内容简介

《爱因斯坦与量子》第1次揭示了爱因斯坦对量子理论贡献的全部意义。爱因斯坦以拒绝量子力学而闻名，他认为上帝不玩骰子。但事实上，他对原子、分子以及光的发射和吸收的性质--我们现在所知的量子理论的核心--的思考比对相对论的思考更多。爱因斯坦与量子》是物理学、传记和科学史的有力结合，分享了爱因斯坦--而不是马克斯·普朗克或尼尔斯·玻尔--如何成为早期量子理论背后的驱动力这一不为人知的故事。它描绘了这位标志性的物理学家的生动形象，因为他正在努力解决原子世界的明显矛盾性质，其中看不见的成分违反了经典物理学的类别，同时表现为粒子和波。本书展示了爱因斯坦后来在光的发射和吸收以及原子气体方面的工作如何直接导致了埃尔温·薛定谔对现代形式的量子力学的突破。

这本书揭示了为什么爱因斯坦放弃了他自己在量子理论方面的杰出工作，因为他对科学作为客观和永恒的东西有着深刻的信念。

Einstein and the Quantum reveals for the first time the full significance of Albert Einstein's contributions to quantum theory. Einstein famously rejected quantum mechanics, observing that God does not play dice. But, in fact, he thought more about the nature of atoms, molecules, and the emission and absorption of light--the core of what we now know as quantum theory--than he did about relativity. A compelling blend of physics, biography, and the history of science, Einstein and the Quantum shares the untold story of how Einstein--not Max Planck or Niels Bohr--was the driving force behind early quantum theory. It paints a vivid portrait of the iconic physicist as he grappled with the apparently contradictory nature of the atomic world, in which its invisible constituents defy the categories of classical physics, behaving simultaneously as both particle and wave. And it demonstrates how Einstein's later work on the emission and absorption of light, and on atomic gases, led directly to Erwin Schrodinger's breakthrough to the modern form of quantum mechanics.

The book sheds light on why Einstein ultimately renounced his own brilliant work on quantum theory, due to his deep belief in science as something objective and eternal.

作者简介

A. 道格拉斯·斯通是耶鲁大学应用物理和物理学的卡尔·A·莫尔斯教授。

A. Douglas Stone is the Carl A. Morse Professor of Applied Physics and Physics at Yale University.

目录

Preface to the Paperback Edition ix Acknowledgments ix Introduction A Hundred Times More Than Relativity Theory 1 Chapter 1 "An Act of Desperation" 5 Chapter 2 The Impudent Swabian 15 Chapter 3 The Gypsy Life 21 Chapter 4 Two Pillars of Wisdom 26 Chapter 5 The Perfect Instruments of the Creator 36 Chapter 6 More Heat Than Light 44 Chapter 7 Difficult Counting 51 Chapter 8 Those Fabulous Molecules 62 Chapter 9 Tripping the Light Heuristic 70 Chapter 10 Entertaining the Contradiction 80 Chapter 11 Stalking the Planck 86 Chapter 12 Calamity Jeans 94 Chapter 13 Frozen Vibrations 103 Chapter 14 Planck's Nobel Nightmare 111 Chapter 15 Joining the Union 122 Chapter 16 Creative Fusion 129 Chapter 17 The Importance of Being Nernst 1...