{"product_id":"quantum-space-and-time-the-quest-continues-studies-and-essays-in-honour-of-louis-de-broglie-paul-dirac-and-eugene-wigner-paperback-9780521319119","title":"Quantum Space and Time - The Quest Continues; Studies and Essays in Honour of Louis de Broglie, Paul Dirac and Eugene Wigner (Paperback) 9780521319119","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eQuantum Space and Time - The Quest Continues\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eStudies and Essays in Honour of Louis de Broglie, Paul Dirac and Eugene Wigner\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eFour dozen studies and essays written to mark the 90th birthday of Louis de Broglie and the 80th birthdays of Paul Dirac and Eugene Wigner.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eAsim O. Barut (Edited by), Alwyn van der Merwe (Edited by), Jean-Pierre Vigier (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521319119, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback, published 26 July 1984\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e672 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 3.8 cm, 0.97 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThis 1984 book brings together 48 studies and essays written by physicists from around the world to mark the 90th birthday of Louis de Broglie and the 80th birthdays of Paul Dirac and Eugene Wigner. Publication under one cover of studies based on the discoveries of scientific personalities as diverse as those to whom this volume is dedicated serves at least one important purpose: it concretely reflects the rival pathways in quantum physics at the time of this book's publication. From one perspective, the papers contrast the strategies of a champion of the mathematical approach (Wigner) with those of a thinker who relied on physical intuition (de Broglie). From another, they compare the views of a defender (Wigner) and and opponent of the Copenhagen school (de Broglie), as well as those of an individual who helped to reconstruct the prevailing quantal paradigm, only later to advocate a return to causality (Dirac).\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePart I. Papers Dedicated to Louis de Broglie: 1. Louis de Broglie - physicist and thinker\u003cbr\u003e 2. The evolution of the ideas of Louis de Broglie on the interpretation of wave mechanics\u003cbr\u003e 3. Editorial postscript to 'The evolution of the ideas of Louis de Broglie on the interpretation of wave mechanics'\u003cbr\u003e 4. Reminiscences on my early association with Louis de Broglie\u003cbr\u003e 5. A critical note on the greatest days of quantum theory\u003cbr\u003e 6. On the contribution of Louis de Broglie to the quantum theory of measurement\u003cbr\u003e 7. On the impossible pilot wave\u003cbr\u003e 8. The de Broglie pilot wave theory and the further development of new insights arising out of it\u003cbr\u003e 9. Does quantum mechanics accept a stochastic support?\u003cbr\u003e 10. Survey of a quark model\u003cbr\u003e 11. De Broglie's wave-particle duality in the stochastic interpretation of quantum mechanics: as testable assumption\u003cbr\u003e 12. Elucidation of the probabilistic nature of quantum mechanics and definition of a compatible joint probability\u003cbr\u003e 13. On the direct observability of quantum waves\u003cbr\u003e 14. Quantum theory and Einstein's general relativity\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Papers dedicated to Eugene Paul Wigner: 15. To Eugene Paul Wigner on his eightieth birthday\u003cbr\u003e 16. On conservation of parity and time reversal and composite models of particles\u003cbr\u003e 17. The 'Sommerfeld puzzle' revisited and resolved\u003cbr\u003e 18. An approach to measurement\u003cbr\u003e 19. Angular-momentum theory and projective geometry\u003cbr\u003e 20. The Wigner phase-space description of collision processes\u003cbr\u003e 21. Accidental degeneracies and symmetry groups\u003cbr\u003e 22. The Wigner distribution function - 50th birthday\u003cbr\u003e 23. Invariance identities associated with finite gauge transformations and the uniqueness of the equations of motion of a particle in a classical gauge field\u003cbr\u003e 24. Muonic atoms testing the electron propagator of quantum electrodynamics and the Higgs boson contribution\u003cbr\u003e 25. Physics and geometry\u003cbr\u003e 26. Galilei invariance, action-reaction principle and centre of mass theorem\u003cbr\u003e 27. The geometrostatic lattice cell\u003cbr\u003e 28. Branching rules and replicating representations\u003cbr\u003e 29. Some double-valued representations of the linear groups\u003cbr\u003e Part III. Papers Dedicated to Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac: 30. Paul Dirac on his eightieth birthday\u003cbr\u003e 31. Nonperturbative quantum electrodynamics: the Lamb shift\u003cbr\u003e 32. Magnetic monopoles: evidence since the Dirac conjecture\u003cbr\u003e 33. Bootstrapping the photon\u003cbr\u003e 34. Visible and invisible in physical theory\u003cbr\u003e 35. Dirac's aether in relativistic quantum mechanics\u003cbr\u003e 36. A Dirac algebraic approach to supersymmetry\u003cbr\u003e 37. Manifestations of group convariance in metric theory\u003cbr\u003e 38. Cosmologies with variable gravitational constant\u003cbr\u003e 39. Spinors and torsion in general relativity\u003cbr\u003e 40. A modified large-number theory with constant G\u003cbr\u003e 41. Is physics at the threshold of a new stage of evolution?\u003cbr\u003e 42. The biometric Weyl–Dirac theory and the gravitational constant\u003cbr\u003e 43. Electromagnetic mass revisited\u003cbr\u003e 44. Forms of relativistic dynamics with world line condition and separability\u003cbr\u003e 45. New avenues in supersymmetry and supergravity\u003cbr\u003e 46. On the equivalence of adiabatic invariance and the KMS condition\u003cbr\u003e Author index\u003cbr\u003e Subject index.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Physics [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Physics\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Physics%20%5BPH%5D%22\"\u003ePH\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46004912554264,"sku":"9780521319119","price":50.78,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9780521319119i_aba06ca5-0fd0-4261-8bb1-52b2f93b2b8e.jpg?v=1691375160","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/quantum-space-and-time-the-quest-continues-studies-and-essays-in-honour-of-louis-de-broglie-paul-dirac-and-eugene-wigner-paperback-9780521319119","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}