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Two Revolutions: Einstein's Relativity and Quantum Physics: A Dialogue between Father and Daughter de Smitha Vishveshwara

Two Revolutions: Einstein's Relativity and Quantum Physics: A Dialogue between Father and Daughter

Autor Smitha Vishveshwara, C. V. Vishveshwara
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 17 ian 2025

Pentru studenții și profesioniștii care caută o perspectivă istorică și conceptuală asupra fundamentelor fizicii moderne, Two Revolutions: Einstein's Relativity and Quantum Physics reprezintă o resursă educațională atipică, ce umanizează rigoarea științifică. Lucrarea este esențială pentru înțelegerea modului în care s-au cristalizat teoriile care stau la baza curriculei actuale de fizică teoretică, oferind o punte între intuiție și formalism. Subliniem modul în care autorii, Smitha Vishveshwara și C. V. Vishveshwara, reușesc să transforme concepte precum curbura spațiu-timpului sau inseparabilitatea cuantică într-un dialog accesibil, fără a sacrifica acuratețea datelor.

Descoperim aici o structură narativă rară: o corespondență între tată și fiică ce traversează decenii de cercetare. Volumul analizează minuțios călătoria lui Einstein și modul în care gravitația modelează universul, dar și paradoxurile lumii cuantice, de la pisica lui Schrödinger la aplicațiile practice în imagistica prin rezonanță magnetică. Un punct forte al ediției este actualizarea informației cu date despre detectarea undelor gravitaționale în 2016, eveniment ce confirmă predicțiile pionieratului lui Vishu din anii '70. Comparabil cu Is Einstein Still Right? în rigurozitate, acest titlu este actualizat pentru noile descoperiri din astrofizica observațională, oferind o perspectivă mai intimă și filosofică asupra procesului de descoperire. De asemenea, spre deosebire de abordarea pur istorică din Once Upon Einstein, volumul de față integrează 74 de ilustrații și diagrame care sprijină vizualizarea fenomenelor complexe, fiind un instrument pedagogic valoros.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780198758334
ISBN-10: 0198758332
Pagini: 336
Ilustrații: 74 line drawings and cartoons
Dimensiuni: 144 x 223 x 24 mm
Greutate: 0.53 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: OUP OXFORD
Colecția OUP Oxford
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

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Despre autor

Smitha Vishveshwara este profesor de fizică la Universitatea din Illinois, specializată în fizica materiei condensate și sisteme cuantice. Co-autorul său, C. V. Vishveshwara (1938–2017), a fost un astrofizician de renume mondial, cunoscut pentru contribuțiile sale fundamentale la teoria găurilor negre. În anii '70, el a prezis „semnătura” specifică a undelor gravitaționale emise de găurile negre (ringdown), o ipoteză confirmată experimental abia patru decenii mai târziu. Această colaborare literară reprezintă moștenirea lor comună, îmbinând rigoarea academică cu o pasiune profundă pentru educație și istoria științei.

Descriere

"Can you kick a black hole?" "What about electrons?" As a child, quantum-physicist Smitha Vishveshwara pondered such questions with her astrophysicist father, C. V. Vishveshwara (Vishu); decades later, their musings grew into a series of letter exchanges in Two Revolutions: Relativity and Quantum Physics.The letters between father and daughter lead the scientifically curious reader through these two remarkable branches of physics that dramatically changed our perception of nature. From the subatomic to the astronomical realms, they weave a rich tapestry of scientific insight, history, personal anecdotes, philosophy, and wonder. The book traces Einstein's tenacious journey in formulating the theory of relativity, in which space and time merge, and gravitation warps spacetime, forming the very fabric of the Universe. The authors reveal how black holes and gravitational waves emerge as bizarre and awe-inspiring constructs within this framework. In the quantum realm, the book mulls over conundrums posed by wave-particle duality, Schrodinger's curious cat, the beautiful dance of electrons in atoms, and entanglement. It explores communities of particles acting in marvelous concert in magnetic resonance imaging, superfluids, and more. Fate took unforeseen twists while the book was still in the making. In 2016, after decades of work by numerous researchers, the detection of gravitational waves — Vishu's lifelong dream — finally came to pass. Emanating from two spiraling blackholes a billion light years away, the waves' signals even showed hints of Vishu's pioneering predictions on black hole ringdowns from the 1970s. But soon after that glorious culmination, Vishu fell critically ill. Smitha concludes their story by recreating the euphoria of scientific discovery against the intimate backdrop of life and death.

Recenzii

This is an engaging and thought-provoking exchange of letters between two insightful physicists, a father and daughter, explaining clearly the principles of both general relativity (including black holes and the detection of gravitational radiation) and quantum theory (including the difference between bosons and fermions, entanglement, a Bose-Einstein condensate, and magnetic resonance imaging). It is delightfully illustrated and does not shy away from presenting relevant key equations. The father-daughter relationship at the centre of the book gives it a unique quality that makes it a great read.
In this book,which is written in an unusual format as an exchange of letters with her late father,a distinguished general relativist, Dr. Vishveshwara presents introductions to each of the two major revolutions of her title at a level which should be accessible to readers with little or no previous exposure to either. Using simple examples or parallels from everyday life, the duo skillfully elucidates the conceptual novelty inherent in each of these two paradigm shifts, which have fundamentally changed not just the answers given by physicists about the world around us,but the very questions which they pose about it.
It was pure pleasure to read about the two revolutions of Relativity and Quantum Physics, from the excitement of discovery in the 20th century to the promises for the same in the 21st! Showcasing unknown heroines of science, the book will endear itself to anybody who dreams of more equity and inclusion in science. It carves out a special place among other such expositions with its conversational narrative between a relativist father and quantum physicist daughter... Their love for the subject, and affection and respect for each other, shine through.
This ground-breaking book places Smitha Vishveshwara in the light of such luminaries as Rachel Carson, Jane Goodall, Jacques Cousteau and, of course, Carl Sagan, Stephen Hawking, Gary Zukav, and Neil deGrasse Tyson. She and her co-author and late father, C.V. Vishveshwara, know the power of humanizing the sciences so that we may all understand ourselves: scientifically, spiritually, sociologically, emotionality, ecologically, and so on. Smitha accomplishes this through this genre-bending book where physics intersects with memoir, history, prayer, poetry, and the intimate art of letter writing... As a practicing engineer and poet all my adult life—Im thrilled and grateful that a book like this has been born.

Notă biografică

Smitha Vishveshwara is a Professor of Physics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her research in quantum condensed matter physics includes studying emergent phenomena in correlated systems, such as collective excitations and particles known as anyons; percolation behavior in protein networks; gravitational parallels in quantum matter; and realization of ultracold quantum bubbles aboard the International Space Station. She recently served as the American Physical Society's Chair of the Division of Condensed Matter Physics. She collaborates with artists to create works that explore the wonders of physics, including the theatre piece Quantum Voyages and the circus performance Cosmic Tumbles, Quantum Leaps.C.V. Vishveshwara was a Senior Professor of Astrophysics at the Raman Research Institute and the Indian Institute of Astrophysics in Bengaluru, India. As a pioneer of black hole studies, he proved their stability and predicted their ringdown signature in gravitational waves. He wrote several popular articles and two popular books, including Einstein's Enigma or Black Holes in my Bubble Bath, and richly illustrated his presentations with his cartoons. As the founder-director of the Jawaharlal Nehru Planetarium in Bengaluru, he established youth educational programs and wrote and directed several planetarium shows.