Einstein Defiant : Genius Versus Genius in the Quantum Revolution

by Bolles, Edmund Blair

• ISBN13: 9780309096171
• ISBN10: 0309096170
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-11-30
• Publisher: Natl Academy Pr

Summary

Powerful and illuminating, "Einstein Defiant" is the first book to capture the soul and the science that inspired a dramatic duel between Albert Einstein and Danish genius Neils Bohr, another founder of quantum physics.

Table of Contents

A RADICAL FACT RESISTED
1 The Opposite of an Intriguer	3	(9)
2 Not German at All	12	(14)
3 I Never Fully Understood It	26	(9)
4 Independence and Inner Freedom	35	(16)
5 A Mercy of Fate	51	(6)
6 Picturesque Phrases	57	(11)
7 Scientific Dada	68	(8)
8 Such a Devil of a Fellow	76	(10)
9 Intuition and Inspiration	86	(8)
10 Bold, Not to Say Reckless	94	(8)
11 A Completely New Lesson	102	(8)
12 Slaves to Time and Space	110	(6)
13 Where All Weaker Imaginations Wither	116	(11)
14 A Triumph of Einstein Over Bohr	127	(10)
A RADICAL THEORY CREATED
15 Something Deeply Hidden	137	(9)
16 Completely Solved	146	(16)
17 Exciting and Exacting Times	162	(22)
18 Intellectual Drunkenness	184	(11)
19 The Observant Executrix	195	(9)
20 It Might Look Crazy	204	(7)
21 Taking Nothing Solemnly	211	(7)
22 How Much More Gratifying	218	(11)
A RADICAL UNDERSTANDING DEFIED
23 Sorcerer's Multiplication	229	(7)
24 Adding Two Nonsenses	236	(5)
25 Admiration and Suspicion	241	(7)
26 An Unrelenting Fanatic	248	(3)
27 The Secret of the Old One	251	(5)
28 Indeterminacy	256	(8)
29 A Very Pleasant Talk	264	(12)
30 The Dream of His Life	276	(9)
31 The Saddest Chapter	285	(8)
32 A Reality Independent of Man	293	(6)
33 A Certain Unreasonableness	299	(6)
Afterword	305	(4)
Bibliography	309	(8)
Sources	317	(20)
Index	337