<i>From Paradox to Reality: Our Basic Concepts of the Physical World</i>
Generate an AI Snapshot to get a quick, structured summary of this paper.
A concise AI-generated summary of the paper will appear here once you click Generate AI Snapshot.
Abstract
Preface Part I. At the Roof of the Endeavor: 1. Human limitations 2. Theory and the role of mathematics 3. Scientific objectivity 4. The aim of scientific theory Part II. The World of Relativity: 5. Space and time: from absolute to relative 6. Imposed consistency: special relativity 7. Gravitation as geometry: general relativity 8. Revolutions without revolutions Part III. The Quantum World: 9. The limits of the classical world 10. Concepts of the quantum world 11. From apparent paradox to a new reality 12. The present state of the art Epilogue Notes Glossary of technical terms Name index Subject index.