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Heinz R. Pagels

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Died July 23, 1988
New York City, United States
Also known as: Heinz Rudolf Pagels, Pagels, Heinz, R.
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Heinz R. Pagels, died on July 23, 1988, in a mountain climbing accident on Pyramid Peak in Aspen, Colorado. A physicist, he was Executive Director of The New York Academy of Sciences, adjunct professor of physics at Rockefeller University, and president of the International League for Human Rights. He was the author of three books:The Cosmic Code, Perfect Symmetry, and Dreams of Reason. He was also a founding member, and, at the time of his death, president of "The Reality Club," which, in 1997, moved to the Web as Edge.

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The dreams of reason

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Explains the new developments and the scientific impact of the computer as an instrument of the new sciences of complexity.

The cosmic code

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Written for general readers, The Cosmic Code goes on a fantastic journey into the microcosmos. Without complicated mathematics, physicist Heinz Pagels presents an understanding of scientific discoveries that have extended human consciousness to the far readches of space & time. Anecdotes from the personal documents of Einstein, Oppenheimer, Niels Bohr & Max Planck provide an intimate glimpse into brilliant persons who've shaped civilzation & changed the world. Elegantly written, this is an opportunity to celebrate the physicist's vision of reality...& how physics is moving toward an understanding of the cosmos. Acknowledgments Foreword The last classical physicist Inventing general relativity The first quantum physicists Heisenberg on Helgoland Uncertainty and complementarity Randomness The invisible hand Statistical mechanics Making waves Schrödinger's cat A quantum mechanical fairy tale Bell's inequality The reality marketplace The matter microscopes Beginning the voyage: molecules, atoms and nuclei The riddle of the hadrons Quarks Leptons Gluons Fields, particles and reality Being and nothingness Identity and difference The gauge field theory revolution Proton decay The quantum and the cosmos Laying down the law The cosmic code Bibliography Index.

De Kosmische Code

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Populair-wetenschappelijk boek over de moderne natuurkunde. De auteur beschrijft allereerst de ontwikkeling en betekenis van de quantumtheorie, geplaatst in een historische kontext van beroemde fysici zoals Einstein en Bohr. Het tweede deel geeft een overzicht van de materie. Reizend langs atomen, quarks en andere quantumdeeltjes wordt de lezer meegenomen naar de moderne veldtheorieen en behandelt de auteur de ontdekkingen die inzicht geven in de fundamentele struktuur van de materie. In het laatste deel wordt de aard van natuurkundige wetten beschreven. In dit helder en boeiend geschreven boek wordt de wiskunde bijna geheel vermeden, zodat ook de (wiskundig ongeschoolde) geinteresseerde leek kennis kan nemen van moderne inzichten. Levendige belangstelling voor het onderwerp is vereist; natuurkundige kennis op havo/vwo niveau vergemakkelijkt het lezen van dit lang niet altijd even eenvoudige boek. Korte, engelstalige, literatuuropgave. Uitgebreid register. (NBD|Biblion recensie, Drs. K.J. van den Heuvel Rijnders)