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Physics and Philosophy: The Revolution in Modern Science

Werner Heisenberg

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Nobel Prize winner Werner Heisenberg's classic account explains the central ideas of the quantum revolution, and his celebrated Uncertainty Principle. Heisenberg reveals how words and concepts familiar in daily life can lose their meaning in the world of relativity and quantum physics. This in turn has profound philosophical implications for the nature of reality.

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Key concepts: Meaning (existential), Epistemology, Philosophy, Theoretical physics, Scientific revolution, Theory of relativity, Uncertainty principle, Philosophy of science