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The Physicist’s Conception of Nature

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    Book Overview
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    Chapter 1 Development of the Physicist’s Conception of Nature
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    Chapter 2 The Universe as a Whole
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    Chapter 3 A Chapter in the Astrophysicist’s View of the Universe
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    Chapter 4 Fundamental Constants and Their Development in Time
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    Chapter 5 The Expanding Earth
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    Chapter 6 The Nature and Structure of Spacetime
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    Chapter 7 Einstein, Hilbert, and the Theory of Gravitation
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    Chapter 8 Theory of Gravitation
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    Chapter 9 From Relativity to Mutability
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    Chapter 10 The Wave-Particle Dilemma
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    Chapter 11 Development of Concepts in the History of Quantum Theory
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    Chapter 12 From Matrix Mechanics and Wave Mechanics to Unified Quantum Mechanics
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    Chapter 13 Early Years of Quantum Mechanics: Some Reminiscences
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    Chapter 14 The Mathematical Structure of Elementary Quantum Mechanics
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    Chapter 15 Relativistic Equations in Quantum Mechanics
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    Chapter 16 The Electron: Development of the First Elementary Particle Theory
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    Chapter 17 The Development of Quantum Field Theory
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    Chapter 18 Quantum Theory of Fields (until 1947)
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    Chapter 19 Development of Quantum Electrodynamics
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    Chapter 20 A Report on Quantum Electrodynamics
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    Chapter 21 Progress in Renormalization Theory Since 1949
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    Chapter 22 Some Concepts in Current Elementary Particle Physics
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    Chapter 23 Crucial Experiments on Discrete Symmetries
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    Chapter 24 Superconductivity and Superfluidity
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    Chapter 25 Problems of Statistical Physics
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    Chapter 26 Phase Transitions
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    Chapter 27 Approach to Thermodynamic Equilibrium (and other Stationary States)
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    Chapter 28 Kinetic Approach to Non-Equilibrium Phenomena
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    Chapter 29 Time, Irreversibility and Structure
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    Chapter 30 The Origin of Biological Information
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    Chapter 31 Classical and Quantum Descriptions
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    Chapter 32 Wavefunction and Observer in the Quantum Theory
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    Chapter 33 The Problem of Measurement in Quantum Mechanics
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    Chapter 34 Subject and Object
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    Chapter 35 Subject, Object, and Measurement
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    Chapter 36 Measurement Process and the Macroscopic Level of Quantum Mechanics
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    Chapter 37 Why a New Approach to Found Quantum Theory?
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    Chapter 38 A Process Conception of Nature
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    Chapter 39 Quantum Logic and Non-Separability
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    Chapter 40 Physics and Philosophy
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    Chapter 41 Recollections of Lord Rutherford
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    Chapter 42 W. Pauli’s Scientific Work
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    Chapter 43 Remarks on Enrico Fermi
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    Chapter 44 The banquet of the symposium — in honour of Paul Dirac, including an address on: The classical mind
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Chapter title
From Relativity to Mutability
Chapter number 9
Book title
The Physicist’s Conception of Nature
Published by
Springer, Dordrecht, January 1973
DOI 10.1007/978-94-010-2602-4_9
Book ISBNs
978-9-40-102604-8, 978-9-40-102602-4
Authors

John Archibald Wheeler, Wheeler, John Archibald

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Country Count As %
Unknown 4 100%

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Readers by professional status Count As %
Professor > Associate Professor 2 50%
Researcher 2 50%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Physics and Astronomy 1 25%
Medicine and Dentistry 1 25%
Design 1 25%
Unknown 1 25%