The Cosmic Code: Quantum Physics as the Language of Nature
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Written for general readers, The Cosmic Codegoes on a fantastic journey into the microcosmos. Without complicated mathematics, physicist Heinz Pagels presents an understanding of scientific discoveries that have extended human consciousness to the far readches of space & time. Anecdotes from the personal documents of Einstein, Oppenheimer, Niels Bohr & Max Planck provide an intimate glimpse into brilliant persons who've shaped civilzation & changed the world. Elegantly written, this is an opportunity to celebrate the physicist's vision of reality...& how physics is moving toward an understanding of the cosmos.
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Acknowledgments
Foreword
The last classical physicist
Inventing general relativity
The first quantum physicists
Heisenberg on Helgoland
Uncertainty and complementarity
Randomness
The invisible hand
Statistical mechanics
Making waves
Schrodinger's cat
A quantum mechanical fairy tale
Bell's inequality
The reality marketplace
The matter microscopes
Beginning the voyage: molecules, atoms and nuclei
The riddle of the hadrons
Quarks
Leptons
Gluons
Fields, particles and reality
Being and nothingness
Identity and difference
The gauge field theory revolution
Proton decay
The quantum and the cosmos
Laying down the law
The cosmic code
Bibliography
Index
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