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“The history is fascinating, as are the insights into the personalitiesof these great thinkers.”—New ScientistIs there a number at the root of the universe? A primal number that everything in the world hinges on? This question exercised many great minds of the twentieth century, among them the groundbreaking physicist Wolfgang Pauli and the famous psychoanalyst Carl Jung. Their obsession with the power of certain numbers—including 137, which describes the atom’s fine-structure constant and has great Kabbalistic significance—led them to develop an unlikely friendship and to embark on a joint mystical quest reaching deep into medieval alchemy, dream interpretation, and the Chinese Book of Changes. 137 explores the profound intersection of modern science with the occult, but above all it is the tale of an extraordinary, fruitful friendship between two of the greatest thinkers of our times. Originally published in hardcover as Deciphering the Cosmic Number. 66 b/w illustrations ... Read more

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Describes the main features of Copenhagen interpretation. Contains discussion of the sciencereligion debate in view of a correct interpretation of the message of nature spelled out in the language of quantum physics. DLC: Quantum theory. ... Read more

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This classic work offers a concise and comprehensive review of the literature on relativity as of 1921, along with the author’s insightful update of later developments in relativity theory and coverage of the controversial questions that arose. Special attention is given to unified field theories. Unabridged republication of the English (1958) edition. Prefaces. Bibliography. Index.
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everything is NOT relative
If you enjoy being told that everything is 'relative', and that there are no absolute Truths (except for the speed of light), then this book is for you.

But if you believe that there is a difference between right and wrong, up and down, left and right, and you believe that the Sun revolves around the Earth (which it does), you might want to skip this book.

Generally speaking, The Theory of Relativity is for people who believe in The Big Bang Theory, Dinosaurs, heliocentricity, and alien civilizations.

Excellent overview of some very basic problems.
This is a pretty doggone good book!The last chapter, especially the last two pages of the text, provides an excellent synopsis of the long standing problem on the structure of matter. It seems that what is left to be done involves the invention or creation of a different mathematical source which is capable of generating a symmetric tensor of rank two thatwill successfully displace the singularity thru the proper incorporation of the energy tensor, Tuv.This would most certainly shed a new light on the generation of mass and the inherent formation of matter: Form defines Function, Function generates Form.You Betcha!!!

When Classic texts on relativity are mentioned...
Today we think of this text as "dated", but it has become a book that I go back to to find important equations and their explanations. The book by the author of the Pauli group has very little group theory, but the mathematics is "Solid". This one is cheap and worth having!

A standard reference written bya lad
I have to correct the review below (which I wrote myself!): Pauli was 22 when he ended his text. I just learned it. I also learned that Einstein was in awe at the excellence of the lad's review of his theory!Read attentively his exposition of Weyl's theory. A few years later Pauli anticipated Yang and Mills in inventing non-abelian gauge theories, a reformulation, in a different context, of Weyl's. He didn't publish a single line, but, when Yang presented his theory in a semminar at Princeton, before Pauli and Einstein, he (Pauli) demonstrated a surprising familiarity with the idea. Perhaps you can find some evidence of it in the notes Pauli added to the second edition. After all, this is one of the greatest pleasures of reading classics!

a great book by a great physicist
This book was intended as a review of the emerging early scientific papers on special andgeneral relativity. This book is not only listing these extremely usefull references, but is alsogiving a broad historicalperspective. The theory, presented in a mathematical way, is somewhat obscured by the lack of any diagrams. You needsome background in order tofully appreciate this book. ... Read more

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These lectures covering topics basic to classical and modern physics were given by Pauli at the Zurich Federal Institute, where they were transcribed by his collaborators. They have now been translated and edited for English publication, and are introduced by Victor Weisskopf, who writes as follows:

"It is often said that scientific texts quickly become obsolete. Why are the Pauli lectures brought to the public today, when some of them were given as long as twenty years ago? The reason is simple: Pauli's way of presenting physics is never out of date. His famous article on the foundations of quantum mechanics appeared in 1933 in the German encyclopedia Handbuch der Physik. Twenty-five years later it reappeared practically unchanged in a new edition, whereas most other contributions to this encyclopedia had to be completely rewritten. The reason for this remarkable fact lies in Pauli's style, which is commensurate to the greatness of its subject in its clarity and impact. Style in scientific writing is a quality that today is on the point of vanishing. The pressure of fast publication is so great that people rush into print with hurriedly written papers and books that show little concern for careful formulation of ideas. Mathematical and instrumental techniques have become complicated and difficult today; they demand so much skill and training that most of the effort of writing and learning is devoted to the acquisition of this skill instead of insight into important concepts. Essential ideas of physics are often lost in the dense forest of mathematical reasoning. This situation need not be so. Pauli's lectures show how physical ideas can be presented clearly and in good mathematical form, without being hidden in formalistic expertise." ... Read more

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These lectures covering topics basic to classical and modern physics were given by Pauli at the Zurich Federal Institute, where they were transcribed by his collaborators. They have now been translated and edited for English publication, and are introduced by Victor Weisskopf, who writes as follows:

"It is often said that scientific texts quickly become obsolete. Why are the Pauli lectures brought to the public today, when some of them were given as long as twenty years ago? The reason is simple: Pauli's way of presenting physics is never out of date. His famous article on the foundations of quantum mechanics appeared in 1933 in the German encyclopedia Handbuch der Physik. Twenty-five years later it reappeared practically unchanged in a new edition, whereas most other contributions to this encyclopedia had to be completely rewritten. The reason for this remarkable fact lies in Pauli's style, which is commensurate to the greatness of its subject in its clarity and impact. Style in scientific writing is a quality that today is on the point of vanishing. The pressure of fast publication is so great that people rush into print with hurriedly written papers and books that show little concern for careful formulation of ideas. Mathematical and instrumental techniques have become complicated and difficult today; they demand so much skill and training that most of the effort of writing and learning is devoted to the acquisition of this skill instead of insight into important concepts. Essential ideas of physics are often lost in the dense forest of mathematical reasoning. This situation need not be so. Pauli's lectures show how physical ideas can be presented clearly and in good mathematical form, without being hidden in formalistic expertise." ... Read more

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These lectures covering topics basic to classical and modern physics were given by Pauli at the Zurich Federal Institute, where they were transcribed by his collaborators. They have now been translated and edited for English publication, and are introduced by Victor Weisskopf, who writes as follows:

"It is often said that scientific texts quickly become obsolete. Why are the Pauli lectures brought to the public today, when some of them were given as long as twenty years ago? The reason is simple: Pauli's way of presenting physics is never out of date. His famous article on the foundations of quantum mechanics appeared in 1933 in the German encyclopedia Handbuch der Physik. Twenty-five years later it reappeared practically unchanged in a new edition, whereas most other contributions to this encyclopedia had to be completely rewritten. The reason for this remarkable fact lies in Pauli's style, which is commensurate to the greatness of its subject in its clarity and impact. Style in scientific writing is a quality that today is on the point of vanishing. The pressure of fast publication is so great that people rush into print with hurriedly written papers and books that show little concern for careful formulation of ideas. Mathematical and instrumental techniques have become complicated and difficult today; they demand so much skill and training that most of the effort of writing and learning is devoted to the acquisition of this skill instead of insight into important concepts. Essential ideas of physics are often lost in the dense forest of mathematical reasoning. This situation need not be so. Pauli's lectures show how physical ideas can be presented clearly and in good mathematical form, without being hidden in formalistic expertise." ... Read more

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Wolfgang Pauli war eines der größten wissenschaftlichen Genies dieses Jahrhunderts. Neben dem bisher unveröffentlichten Manuskript Die Klavierstunde enthält das vorliegende Werk Aufsätze und Erörterungen von hervorragenden Wissenschaftlern und Wissenschaftsphilosophen unserer Tage. Die inhaltliche Auseinandersetzung konzentriert sich auf Paulis stark durch seine Zusammenarbeit mit C.G. Jung beeinflußten Ansichten über die Bedeutung der Psyche bei unserem Umgang mit den Naturwissenschaften und selbstverständlich für unseren Realitätsbegriff im allgemeinen. Die faszinierenden Materialien und die bedeutenden Ideen, die hier zusammengefaßt werden, bieten jedem Physiker, Philosophen, Psychologen und anderen interessierten Wissenschaftlern anregenden Lesestoff. ... Read more

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This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process.We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide.We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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Mit dem Druck von Wolfgang Paulis Briefwechsel aus seinen letzten beiden Lebensjahren wird eine großangelegte Edition der gesamten wissenschaftlichen Korrespondenz eines der bedeutendsten theoretischen Physiker des 20. Jahrhunderts abgeschlossen, der an der Entwicklung der wichtigsten physikalischen Ideen und Theorien, insbesondere an der Relativitätstheorie und Quantentheorie sowie deren weiteren Ausbau zu einer Feld- und Elementarteilchentheorie, teilgenommen hat. Der vorliegende besonders umfangreiche Band mit 711 Briefen behandelt die durch Wu, Telegdi, Lederman u.a. bei den schwachen Wechselwirkungen beobachtete Paritätsverletzung, bei der das einst von Pauli postulierte Neutrino eine herausragende Rolle spielt und die in der Theorie der Elementarteilchen einen allgemeinen Umschwung einleitete. Neue Einblicke vermittelt der Briefwechsel in die enge Zusammenarbeit von Pauli und Heisenberg anlässlich einer damals entwickelten einheitlichen Feldtheorie der Elementarteilchen.

This volume of the letters Wolfgang Pauli wrote during the final two years of his life completes the publication of the entire scientific correspondence of one of the most important theoretical physicists of the 20th century. Pauli played a vital role in the development of the most important physical ideas and theories of his time: relativity and quantum mechanics, in particular, and also in their extension to elementary particle field theory. This especially extensive volume covers more than 700 letters between Pauli and scientists such as Wu, Telegdi, Lederman and others, in which he discussed parity violation observed under the weak interaction in which the neutrino (first postulated by Pauli) plays a crucial role. The letters also provide new insights into the close cooperation between Pauli and Heisenberg on their work on the unified field theory of elementary particles, which was being developed at that time.

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MESON THEORY OF NUCLEAR FORCES WOLFGANG PAULI THE INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY, PRINCETON, NEW JERSEY, AND FEDERAL POLYTECHNICUM ZURICH, SWITZERLAND SECOND EDITION 1948 INTERSCIENCE PUBLISHERS, INC. NEW YORK INTERSCIENCE PUBLISHERS, LTD. LONDON Copyright, 1946, 1948, by INTERSCIENCE PUBLISHERS, INC. 215 Fourth Avenue, New York 3, N. Y. Printed in the United States of America by Mack Printing Company, Easton, Pa. First Edition, 1946 Second Edition, 1948 All rights reserved This book or any part thereof must not be reproduced in any form without per mission of the publisher in writing. This applies specifically to photostatic and microfilm reproductions. PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION Since the publication of the last edition some of the older experiments particularly those on angular dis tribution in proton-neutron scattering have been ren dered obsolete by more recent work. In addition, some consequences of the strong coupling theory have been clarified. In this respect, improvements have been introduced into the text. On the other hand, the provisional state of the meson theory has become still more obvious as a result of the experimental discovery of at least two kinds of mesons by C. F. Powell and G. P. S. Occhialini, and by the absence of negative meson capture by the lighter nuclei by M. Conversi, E. Pancini, and O. Piccioni. In view of the failure of all present theories in explaining these new facts, the author saw no possibility of making an essential improvement in the substance of this book. But the recent success of C. M. G. Lattes and E. Gardner in producing mesons artificially will presum ably bring forth a great change of the whole situation in the near future. Zurich, Switzerland WOLFGANG PAULI June, 1948 Preface to the First Edition The purpose of this volume is to make accessible to a larger number of readers the lectures which I gave in the autumn of 1944 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Without pretending to contain any thing essentially new, they may serve to give to students and research workers a first orientation in the more recent literature on the theory of the interaction of mesons with protons and neutrons nucleons and the interactions between nucleons derived from it. Despite the imperfections of my lectures, the original notes written by Dr. J. F. Carlson and Dr. A. J. F. Siegert have been amended only slightly, to preserve the in formal character of the lectures and to emphasize the very provisional state of the problems in question, to which new experiments may in the future make im portant contributions. Special thanks are extended to Dr. S. T. Ma for reading and checking the proofs. Princeton, New Jersey WOLFGANG PAULI February, 1946 CONTENTS PREFACE v CHAPTER I 1 Various Types of Meson Fields 3 Scalar Charged Meson Field 4 Pseudoscalar Symmetric Theory 6 Vector-Field Theory 8 CHAPTER II 11 Theory of Extended Source 12 CHAPTER III 25 Scattering of Mesons 25 Magnetic Moment in the Strong Coupling Case 34 Magnetic Moment in the Weak Coupling Case . 38 CHAPTER IV 41 Quantum Theory of Scattering 41 Theory of Radiation Damping 41 Heisenbergs Observable Quantities 1 ... 46 Proof that 5 is Unitary 48 CHAPTER V 52 Theory of Neutron-Proton Scattering 52 CHAPTER VI 57 Strong Coupling Theory of the Two-Nucleon Sys tem 57 Concluding Remarks 65 APPENDIX 67 CHAPTER I The meson theory of nuclear forces has been de veloped in analogy to the theory of the Coulomb force, which arises from the interaction of charged particles with the electromagnetic field. The short range of the nuclear forces is obtained by letting the particles corre sponding to the photons have a rest mass, 1 the range of forces arising from a field of particles of rest mass x being H JLC. From experiments on scattering of neutrons by protons the range of nuclear forces is known to be 2 X 10 13 cm, which leads to a rest mass -t 200 electron masses... ... Read more

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Publication date: 1922Notes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be numerous typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes.When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. You can also preview the book there. ... Read more

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Im Alter von 21 Jahren hat W. Pauli einen Handbuchartikel zur Relativitätstheorie verfaßt, der bis heute gelesen und zitiert wird. Er ist wohl der berühmteste Text zum Thema und wurde nicht zuletzt von A. Einstein begeistert gewürdigt. Die vorliegende Neuausgabe enthält den Originalartikel sowie weitere, teilweise recht ausführliche Ergänzungen, die Pauli im Jahre 1956 für die englische Ausgabe schrieb. Eine Reihe von Anmerkungen des Herausgebers dienen darüber hinaus als Lesehilfen und zeigen Verbindungen zu modernen Entwicklungen auf. ... Read more

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W. Paulis Handbuchartikel Die allgemeinen Prinzipien der Wellenmechanik übertraf für Jahrzehnte alle anderen Darstellungen an Tiefe und Gründlichkeit. Er sollte nach wie vor von jedem Studierenden, der sich ernsthaft mit den Grundlagen der Quantentheorie auseinandersetzen will, zu Rate gezogen werden. Paulis konzentrierte Darstellung der nichtrelativistischen Quantenmechanik hat als Klassiker die Zeiten überdauert. Sie macht den ersten Teil des Werks aus, der zweite behandelt Diracs relativistische Quantentheorie zum Einkörperproblem und zur Strahlung. Der Herausgeber hat das Werk durch ein wissenschaftliches Kurzportrait Paulis und zahlreiche Anmerkungen ergänzt, so daß das Buch auch als ein Beitrag zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte gesehen werden muß. Das Buch eignet sich für Studenten ab dem 4. Semester. ... Read more