Big Week At Big Sur And Einstein Doesn T Like It By Gary Zukav

Who would have thought to explain all of the quantum relativistic physics as an unfolding story better than Gary Zukav? The result of such a brave endeavor in 1979, was a delightful book that would be extremely useful to minds curious about the breakthrough discoveries of advanced physics, but who have no scientific background. The book expresses a serious attempt to present physicists’ work and ideas to all that are interested regardless of their previous knowledge in these matters. Not only the book is a pleasure to read, but it also manages to talk on the everlasting journey of physicists to discover and explain phenomena that are very difficult to understand and discuss even among their closed scientific group. Even though the book presents

The chapters of the book are mostly named by the different interpretations of the word Wu Li. The Table of Contents is followed by another one that describes in more detail what was in the first one, which is fair enough since the first chapter is entitled WU LI? Big Week at Big Sur and Einstein Doesn't Like It, which needs an explanation. Zukav begins by describing the circumstances that inspired him to begin the project and some of the debates about physics at the turn of the century, and he continues with the various explanations of optical phenomena and quantum mechanics. The book's character is best revealed by looking at its roots. An interesting feature of the book is that footnotes were contributed by a number of physicists. The footnotes have not been 'translated' by Zukav to make them easier to understand and he emphasizes that he has not changed, removed, or added anything to the comments. I believe that the added contribution of other physicists in explaining part of the technicalities presented in the origins of quantum physics and relativity makes the information presented reliable and it does show to non-scientist readers that physics is not that complicated. The structure of the book is easy to follow, but not easy to remember afterward. Even though a lot of facts and details are introduced in every paragraph, the major purpose of this precise information is the idea behind it and the

The purely objective and factual part of the book begins with Newtonian physics and then in a comparative jump continues to the birth of quantum mechanics in 1900 with Max Plank. The comparison made is quite relevant to understand the three hundred and sixty degrees turn in physics at the beginning of the 20th century. Also, the model of the atom was a whole discussion on its own, until Bohr almost had the perfect empirical and theoretical study of the structure of an atom. The discussion of the nature of matter would eventually become the fundamental issue of the quantum world. The Wave-particle duality led to an ongoing discussion about the true nature of matter in different circumstances. What follows is the explanation and the study of one of the key experiments that shock all the physicists. The results of the double slit experiment of Thomas Young were completely unpredictable and the interpretations have a deep philosophical touch. In all cases, the answer to a why question it starts with a maybe. Like never before, the basic concepts of physics did not prove to be universally applicable. The tiniest particles not even visible with the most powerful microscope seemed to have a mind of their own. Here is where for the first-time philosophy becomes a