Title: Conversations on the dark secrets of physics /
Authors: Teller, Edward, 1908-; Teller, Wendy; Talley, Wilson
Publisher: Plenum Press,
Year: 1991
Subjects: Physics.
Abstract: In Conversations on the Dark Secrets of Physics, Teller returns to the fundamentals of physics to share with readers his unbridled enthusiasm for the world of physical reality--from the nature of molecules to quantum mechanics and superconductors, from the elementary laws of thermodynamics to how planets, asteroids, and comets develop their orbits. By simplifying the math and forgoing the often-confusing technical jargon, Teller helps the reader break through physic's bewildering formulas and equations and get to the wonders of our physical universe. A timeless and personal explanation of the importance of physics in our life, Conversations on the Dark Secrets of Physics is certain to become a classic.
Contents: Prologue--a warning -- Relativity: space and time of the physicist -- Statics: the science of no motion -- A revolution ignored, a revolution repressed -- Newton -- "Hypotheses non fingo" -- Statistical mechanics: disorder is also a law -- Electricity and magnetism or the structure of vacuum -- the existence of atoms -- The correspondence principle: a new science based on a contradiction -- Wave-particle dualism -- The uncertainty principle -- Uses of new knowledge -- Epilogue: after the revolution.