1st Edition
Physicists in Conflict From Antiquity to the New Millennium
By Neil A. Porter
Copyright 1998
294 Pages
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CRC Press
276 Pages
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CRC Press
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Dialogue in science is essential for progress. But when dialogue becomes conflict or further intensifies to persecution the situation is harmful not only to science, but also to the wider society in which science exists. This is true whether the conflict is internal, in the case of Boltzmann, or external, as with Galileo and Oppenheimer against their respective authorities. Physicists in... Read more
Introduction
Religion Rampant: Hypatia, Roger Bacon, Giordano Bruno
Galileo and the Inquisition
Kepler
Internal Conflict
The Atomic Theory and Positivist Philosophy
N-Rays
Einstein and the Copenhagen School
Oppenheimer and the AEC
Blackett, Cherwell, Tizard: Operational Research and Total War
The Big Bang versus Continuous Creation
Multiple versus Plural Photon and Particle Production
Missing Magnetic Monopoles
Conclusions
Postscript References
Glossary
Bibliographical Discussion
Bibliography
Index
Religion Rampant: Hypatia, Roger Bacon, Giordano Bruno
Galileo and the Inquisition
Kepler
Internal Conflict
The Atomic Theory and Positivist Philosophy
N-Rays
Einstein and the Copenhagen School
Oppenheimer and the AEC
Blackett, Cherwell, Tizard: Operational Research and Total War
The Big Bang versus Continuous Creation
Multiple versus Plural Photon and Particle Production
Missing Magnetic Monopoles
Conclusions
Postscript References
Glossary
Bibliographical Discussion
Bibliography
Index
Biography
Neil A. Porter
"…very clear, accessible, and quite accurate survey of a number of fascinating debates within physics."
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