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Subatomic Particles Quantum Mechanics
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Werner Heisenberg And The Uncertainty Principle
2,213 words... t dealt with observed frequencies and intensities of emitted and absorbed light, and in doing it enabled a momentous breakthrough in physics, ensuring Heisenberg's place in modern physics. Heisenberg then laid the groundwork for the new theoretical "matrix mechanics." The next semester, Heisenberg wrote a paper on the topic but was not sure if he should publish it. He gave it to Born to read, and while he was away at Cambridge, England Born sent the paper to the "Zeitschrift fr Physik", a le...
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History Of Time Space And Time
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1,357 wordsPaul Adrien Maurice Dirac Patrick Ennis Mrs. Carter Research Monday, December 9, 1996 Physical Laws should have mathematical beauty. This statement was Dirac's response to the question of his philosophy of physics, posed to him in Moscow in 1955. He wrote it on a blackboard that is still preserved today Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac (1902 - 1984), known as P. A. M. Dirac, was the fifteenth Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge. He shared the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1933 with Erwin Schrod...
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2,410 wordsIn autumn of 1992, one of the worlds greatest contemporary physicists passed away. David Bohm, whose work inspired many people all over the world, died in London. David Bohm's contributions to science and philosophy are profound, and they have yet to be fully recognized and integrated on the grand scale. David Bohm was born on December 20, 1917, in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. Bohm was fascinated by the dazzling concepts of cosmic forces and vast expanses of space that lie beyond our understandin...
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812 wordsJess Genius Overlooked Genius OverlookeJess Brock Algebra III Summer School Mr. Palumbo July 24, 1999 Stephen Hawking is, all in all, one of the greatest thinkers of the twentieth century. Dr. Hawking is a theoretical physicist. In his own words, A theoretical physicist? [tries] to construct mathematical models which represent the universe. Sadly, though, his triumphs are often overshadowed by his illness. Dr. Hawking suffers from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, and generally his successes are vi...
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1,236 wordsA Quantum Computer a future technology By the strange laws of quantum mechanics, Folger, a senior editor at Discover, notes, an electron, proton, or other subatomic particle is in more than one place at a time, because individual particles behave like waves, these different places are different states that an atom can exist in simultaneously. Ten years ago, Folger writes, David Deutsch, a physicist at Oxford University, argued that it may be possible to build an extremely powerful computer based...
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1,568 wordsWhile researching quantum physics, I realized that I had just finished a book that was based on quantum theory. At the time, I didn t quite realize that quantum theory and quantum physics were related except in name. Niels Bohr once said, Anyone who is not shocked by quantum theory has not understood it. He believed this because quantum physics makes the common laws of classical physics false on small scales. First, quantum physics is the physics of the incredibly small. It tries to explain the ...
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3,306 wordsAlbert Einsteins theory Relativity Relativity Albert Einsteins theory of relativity has caused major revolutions in physics and astronomy during the 20 th century. It introduced to science the concept of relativity the notion that there is no absolute motion in the universe, only relative motion thus superseding the 200 -year-old theory of mechanics of Isaac Newton. Einstein showed that we reside not in the flat, Euclidean space and uniform, absolute time of everyday experience, but in another e...
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718 wordsThe thinking machineConsciousnessby Rita Carter 319 pp, Weidenfeld The science of consciousness is like a car revving loudly while stuck in neutral. Just a decade ago, mind researchers were bright with confidence. Neuroscientists had scanners with which they could take intimate snapshots of the human brain. Psychologists were getting together with philosophers to hammer out a common intellectual ground. At conferences, speaker after speaker proclaimed that science was now ready to take on the ul...
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