The Quantum Labyrinth: How Richard Feynman and John Wheeler Revolutionized Time and Reality (Hardcover)
暫譯: 量子迷宮:理查德·費曼與約翰·惠勒如何革新時間與現實
Paul Halpern
- 出版商: Basic Books
- 出版日期: 2017-10-17
- 售價: $950
- 貴賓價: 9.8 折 $931
- 語言: 英文
- 頁數: 336
- 裝訂: Hardcover
- ISBN: 0465097588
- ISBN-13: 9780465097586
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相關分類:
量子 Quantum
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商品描述
The story of the unlikely friendship between the two physicists who fundamentally recast the notion of time and history
In 1939, Richard Feynman, a brilliant graduate of MIT, arrived in John Wheeler's Princeton office to report for duty as his teaching assistant. A lifelong friendship and enormously productive collaboration was born, despite sharp differences in personality. The soft-spoken Wheeler, though conservative in appearance, was a raging nonconformist full of wild ideas about the universe. The boisterous Feynman was a cautious physicist who believed only what could be tested. Yet they were complementary spirits. Their collaboration led to a complete rethinking of the nature of time and reality. It enabled Feynman to show how quantum reality is a combination of alternative, contradictory possibilities, and inspired Wheeler to develop his landmark concept of wormholes, portals to the future and past. Together, Feynman and Wheeler made sure that quantum physics would never be the same again.
商品描述(中文翻譯)
兩位物理學家之間不太可能的友誼故事,徹底改變了時間和歷史的概念
1939年,麻省理工學院的優秀畢業生理查德·費曼(Richard Feynman)來到約翰·惠勒(John Wheeler)在普林斯頓的辦公室,報到擔任他的教學助理。儘管性格差異明顯,但他們之間卻建立了終生的友誼和極具成效的合作。溫文爾雅的惠勒,外表保守,卻是一位充滿狂野宇宙觀念的激進非從眾者;而性格外向的費曼則是一位謹慎的物理學家,只相信可以被驗證的事物。然而,他們卻是互補的靈魂。他們的合作促成了對時間和現實本質的全面重新思考。這使得費曼能夠展示量子現實是替代性、矛盾可能性的組合,並激發惠勒發展出他的里程碑概念——蟲洞,通往未來和過去的入口。費曼和惠勒共同確保了量子物理學將永遠不再相同。