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Covered with Deep Mist: The Development of Quantum Gravity (1916-1956)

Covered with Deep Mist: The Development of Quantum Gravity (1916-1956)

Covered with Deep Mist: The Development of Quantum Gravity (1916-1956)
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Covered with Deep Mist: The Development of Quantum Gravity (1916-1956) Hardback - 2020

by Rickles, Dean

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  • Title Covered with Deep Mist: The Development of Quantum Gravity (1916-1956)
  • Author Rickles, Dean
  • Binding Hardback
  • Condition New
  • Pages 318
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
  • Publication date 2020-05-05
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index
  • Bookseller's Inventory # DADAX0199602956
  • ISBN 9780199602957 / 0199602956
  • Weight 1.7 lbs (0.77 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.8 x 6.8 x 0.8 in (24.89 x 17.27 x 2.03 cm)
  • Size 9.80x0.80x6.80
  • Category Science
  • Library of Congress subjects History, Quantum gravity
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2019955139
  • Dewey Decimal Code 530.143
  • Quantity available 5

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The problem of quantum gravity is often viewed as the most pressing unresolved problem of modern physics: our theories of spacetime and matter, described respectively by general relativity (Einstein's theory of gravitation and spacetime) and quantum mechanics (our best theory of matter and the other forces of nature) resist unification. Covered with Deep Mist provides the first book-length treatment of the history of quantum gravity, focusing on its origins and earliest stages of development until the mid-1950s. Readers will be guided through the impacts on the problem of quantum gravity resulting from changes in the two ingredient theories, quantum theory and general relativity, which were themselves still under construction in the years studied. We examine how several of the core approaches of today were formed in an era when the field was highly unfashionable. The book aims to be accessible to a broad range of readers and goes beyond a merely technical examination to include social and cultural factors involved in the changing fortunes of the field. Suitable for both newcomers and seasoned quantum gravity professionals, the book will shine new light on this century-old, unresolved problem.

About the author

Dean Rickles, Professor of History and Philosophy of Modern Physics, University of Sydney, Australia

Dean Rickles received his PhD from the University of Leeds in 2004, under the supervision of Steven French, with a thesis on conceptual issues in quantum gravity. He took up a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Calgary in 2005 (split between health sciences and philosophy), on the application of complex systems theory to population health. He joined HPS at the University of Sydney in 2007, receiving a five year ARC Australian Research Fellowship in 2008 and then a four year ARC Future Fellowship in 2014. He is now Professor of History and Philosophy of Modern Physics at the University of Sydney, where he also co-directs the Centre for Time.

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