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Sto caricando le informazioni... Third Thoughtsdi Steven Weinberg
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. The pieces are too short to be meaningful. ( ) In this sequel to Nobel physicist Weinberg's _Facing Up_ (2001) and _Lake Views_ (2009), most of the 25 essays first appeared between 2009 and 2017 in other places such as _The New York Review of Books_. It's of course well worth reading, but here I'll just say that I was disappointed by the essay on interpretations of quantum mechanics (QM). E.g., Weinberg says that the psi-epistemic ("instrumentalist") view "rejects the role of [QM] altogether as a description of reality" (p 133). Poorly qualified to quarrel with Weinberg I may be, but I think this (common) kind of judgment has been thoroughly refuted in recent papers by such notables as Carlo Rovelli, Christopher Fuchs, and David Mermin. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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This is the third in a series of volumes of essays by Steven Weinberg, the previous two having also been published by HUP (Facing Up in 2001, and Lake Views in 2010). Weinberg, recipient of the Nobel Prize (1979) with Abdus Shalam and Sheldon Glashow for their contributions to the electroweak unification theory, is well known not only for his groundbreaking work in physics, but also for his efforts in popularizing science and the history of science, and for his stances on various matters in politics, public policy, and religion. This volume, like the previous two, runs a wide gamut, from the cosmological to the personal. Specific topics include particle physics, quantum mechanics, astronomy, big science, the history of science, space flight, science funding, the limits of current knowledge, and several other subjects ranging from the art of discovery to being wrong. Nearly all of the work included here, again as with the previous two volumes, has been previously published. The author has added introductions to the volume as a whole and to each essay, putting the material in context and adding further explanation where necessary. He has also added a number of explanatory notes.-- Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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