Quantum theory and relativity - the two great advances that made the early twentieth century a Golden Age of physics - overturned all our commonsense assumptions about space, time, motion and reality.
In this book a world-famous physicist made accessible the central discoveries and startling implications of the new science. For, despite its challenges to many of our most cherished beliefs, atomic physics also represents a culmination of age-old currents in Western thought and can be presented without too many technicalities in everyday language. Werner Heisenberg's celebrated Uncertainty Principle is one of the cornerstones of modern physics; in Physics and Philosophy he produced a layperson's tour of the strange new world he did so much to discover.
'One of the most lucid accounts of the so-called Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics which has become the standard viewpoint... The enduring appeal of this book is that it carries the reader, with remarkable clarity, from the esoteric world of atomic physics to the world of people, language and the conception of our shared reality' - Paul Davies
"This book will give to the reader a glimpse of the great perspectives which modern physics has opened for wide fields of human endeavour and for understanding of man' Richard Courant
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