Quantum Dialogue: The Making of a Revolution (Science and Its Conceptual Foundations series)

winner Of The Morris D. Forkosch Prize Of The journal Of The History Of Ideas For Best Book On Intellectual History, 1999

science Is Rooted In Conversations, Wrote Werner Heisenberg, One Of The Twentieth Century's Great Physicists; quantum Dialogue Shows Us How Often Science Is Rooted Not Just In Conversation But In Disagreement, A Culture That Fuels Scientific Creativity. Using Original Correspondence, Notebooks, And Drafts Of Talks And Published Papers, Beller Reveals How World-famous Scientists Promoted Their Views By Dismissing Their Opponents As Unreasonable And Championing Their Own Not-always-coherent Positions As Inevitable. quantum Dialogue Provides A Revision Of The Accepted History Of The Quantum Revolution, Proposes A New Approach To The History And Philosophy Of Science, And Will Surely Fascinate Anyone Interested In How Scientific Revolutions Are Constructed And Scientific Consensus Is Achieved.

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theoretical Concerns, Experiment, Logic, Emotions, And Ambitions As Well As The Conversations Cited By Heisenberg Fuel The Creativity That Drives Science, Finds Beller (history And Philosophy Of Science, Hebrew U. Of Jerusalem). She Constructs A Radical New Reading Of The History Of The Quantum Revolution By Looking At Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle, Born's Probabilistic Interpretation, And Bohr's Complementarity Principle. Annotation C. Book News, Inc., Portland, Or (booknews.com)