Are Quanta Real? : A Galilean Dialogue. [Dialogue on the Question, Are Quanta Real? Between Filippo Salviati, Giovanfrancesco Sagredo, and Simplicio; Time and Place: Fall of 1970, in a Villa on the Shores of Lake Geneva]
by Jauch, J. M. [typography, Guy Fleming]
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Bloomington ; London : Indiana University Press, 1973., 1973. Very Good. Red cloth with silver lettering ; OCLC: 604990 ; ISBN: 0253308607 ; LCCN: 72-79907 ; ex-lib, stamps, pocket, label ; "The central question at the Solvay Congress in 1927 was: Is quantum mechanics a 'complete theory'....The situation presents a remarkable similarity with that which occurred at the beginning of the seventeenth century, when the geocentric system of Ptolemaeus had to give way to the heliocentric one of Copernicus...which inspired Galileo in 1630 to write his celebrated 'Dialogue.. .' The close similarity...has induced me to appeal to the three imaginary interlocutors who carried on the famous 'dialogue'..."--- from the Introduction ; an epistemological approach to the explanation of quanta ; an unusual, if not novel and noteworthy approach ; VG
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- Joseph Valles - Books (US)
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- Are Quanta Real? : A Galilean Dialogue. [Dialogue on the Question, Are Quanta Real? Between Filippo Salviati, Giovanfrancesco Sagredo, and Simplicio; Time and Place: Fall of 1970, in a Villa on the Shores of Lake Geneva]
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- Jauch, J. M. [typography, Guy Fleming]
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- Bloomington ; London : Indiana University Press, 1973.
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- 1973
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- bohr physics mathematics photons polarizing plates irrational numbers quantum mechanics newton green man schrodinger's cat galileo plato salviati sagredo dream solvay
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