The Physicist’s Conception of Nature 1973rd Edition by Jagdish Mehra (PDF)

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The fundamental conceptions of twentieth-century physics have profoundly influenced almost every field of modern thought and activity. Quantum Theory, Relativity, and the modern ideas on the Structure of Matter have contributed to a deeper understand­ ing of Nature, and they will probably rank in history among the greatest intellectual achievements of all time. The purpose of our symposium was to review, in historical perspective, the current horizons of the major conceptual structures of the physics of this century. Professors Abdus Salam and Hendrik Casimir, in their remarks at the opening of the symposium, have referred to its origin and planning. Our original plan was to hold a two-week symposium on the different aspects of five principal themes: 1. Space, Time and Geometry (including the structure of the universe and the theory of gravita­ tion),2. Quantum Theory (including the development of quantum mechanics and quantum field theory), 3. Statistical Description of Nature (including the discussion of equilibrium and non-equilibrium phenomena, and the application of these ideas to the evolution of biological structure), 4. The Structure of Matter (including the discus­ sion, in a unified perspective, of atoms, molecules, nuclei, elementary particles, and the physics of condensed matter), and finally, 5. Physical Description and Epistemo­ logy (including the distinction between classical and quantum descriptions, and the epistemological and philosophical problems raised by them).

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⭐This book contains the proceedings of the Symposium on the Development of The Physicist’s Conception of Nature in the Twentieth Century held at the International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) in Trieste during September 18-25, 1972. The director of the Symposium, Prof. Jagdish Mehra, did manage to assemble an astonishing group of star physicists who pioneered the field during the 20-th century. Among them, Paul Dirac, to whom the symposium was dedicated in honor of his 70-th birthday, and Werner Heisenberg, the father of quantum mechanics. The programme of the symposium (reproduced in Appendix I) included talks on the structure of the universe, space, time and geometry, quantum theory, the statistical description of Nature, physical description and epistemology. Besides their historical significance, the papers presented at the symposium are still fresh and interesting to read. Of Mehra it is worth remembering his monumental study The Historical Development of Quantum Theory (coauthored with H. Rechenberg).

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