Physics and Philosophy : The Revolution in Modern Science

Author: Heisenberg, Werner

Philosophy of science

Published on 3 August 2000 by Penguin Books Ltd (Penguin Classics) in the United Kingdom as part of 'the Penguin Modern Classics' series.

Paperback / softback | 176 pages
198 x 129 x 11 | 136g

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.