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The Physicist's Conception of Nature (Hardcover, 1973 ed.)
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The Physicist's Conception of Nature (Hardcover, 1973 ed.)
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The fundamental conceptions of twentieth-century physics have
profoundly influenced almost every field of modern thought and
activity. Quantum Theory, Relativity, and the modern ideas on the
Structure of Matter have contributed to a deeper understand ing of
Nature, and they will probably rank in history among the greatest
intellectual achievements of all time. The purpose of our symposium
was to review, in historical perspective, the current horizons of
the major conceptual structures of the physics of this century.
Professors Abdus Salam and Hendrik Casimir, in their remarks at the
opening of the symposium, have referred to its origin and planning.
Our original plan was to hold a two-week symposium on the different
aspects of five principal themes: 1. Space, Time and Geometry
(including the structure of the universe and the theory of gravita
tion),2. Quantum Theory (including the development of quantum
mechanics and quantum field theory), 3. Statistical Description of
Nature (including the discussion of equilibrium and non-equilibrium
phenomena, and the application of these ideas to the evolution of
biological structure), 4. The Structure of Matter (including the
discus sion, in a unified perspective, of atoms, molecules, nuclei,
elementary particles, and the physics of condensed matter), and
finally, 5. Physical Description and Epistemo logy (including the
distinction between classical and quantum descriptions, and the
epistemological and philosophical problems raised by them).
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