Quantum Dialogue

The Making of a Revolution

Mara Beller (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

365 Seiten

2001
University of Chicago Press (Verlag)
978-0-226-04182-7 (ISBN)

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This work seeks to show that science is rooted not just in conversation but in disagreement, doubt and uncertainty. Mara Beller argues that it is precisely this culture of dialogue and controversy within the scientific community that fuels creativity. Beller draws her argument from her reading of the history of the quantum revolution, especially the development of the Copenhagen interpretation. One of several competing approaches, this version succeeded largely due to the rhetorical skills of Niels Bohr and his colleagues. Using archival research, Beller shows how Bohr and others marketed their views, misrepresenting and dismissing their opponents as "unreasonable" and championing their own not always coherent or well-supported position as "inevitable".

Mara Beller is the Barbara Druss Dibner Professor of History and Philosophy of Science at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	11.6.2001
Reihe/Serie	Science & its Conceptual Foundations Series SCF
Sprache	englisch
Maße	15 x 23 mm
Gewicht	567 g
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Quantenphysik
ISBN-10	0-226-04182-4 / 0226041824
ISBN-13	978-0-226-04182-7 / 9780226041827
Zustand	Neuware