AuthorBlum, Alexander S. author. Author. http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut
TitleHeisenberg’s 1958 Weltformel and the Roots of Post-Empirical Physics [electronic resource] / by Alexander S. Blum
ImprintCham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019
Edition 1st ed. 2019
Connect tohttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-20645-1
Descript VII, 66 p. 5 illus. online resource

SUMMARY

This book presents the first detailed account of Werner Heisenberg’s failed attempt to find a theory of everything in the autumn of his career. It further investigates what we can learn from his failure in relation to the search for a final theory of physics, an endeavour that continues to define research in fundamental physics to this day. Thereby it provides the first historically informed contribution to the current debate on post-empirical physics and the state of particle physics


CONTENT

Introduction -- The origins of Heisenberg's program -- Heisenberg Triumphant -- Reception and Rejection -- Conclusions


SUBJECT

  1. Science -- Philosophy
  2. Quantum theory
  3. History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics. http://scigraph.springernature.com/things/product-market-codes/P29000
  4. Philosophy of Science. http://scigraph.springernature.com/things/product-market-codes/E34000
  5. Elementary Particles
  6. Quantum Field Theory. http://scigraph.springernature.com/things/product-market-codes/P23029
  7. Theoretical
  8. Mathematical and Computational Physics. http://scigraph.springernature.com/things/product-market-codes/P19005