The Cosmic Code: Quantum Physics as the Language of Nature

Written for general readers, The Cosmic Code goes on a fantastic journey into the microcosmos. Without complicated mathematics, physicist Heinz Pagels presents an understanding of scientific discoveries that have extended human consciousness to the far readches of space & time. Anecdotes from the personal documents of Einstein, Oppenheimer, Niels Bohr & Max Planck provide an intimate glimpse into brilliant persons who've shaped civilzation & changed the world. Elegantly written, this is an opportunity to celebrate the physicist's vision of reality...& how physics is moving toward an understanding of the cosmos.AcknowledgmentsForewordThe last classical physicistInventing general relativityThe first quantum physicistsHeisenberg on Helgoland Uncertainty and complementarity Randomness The invisible hand Statistical mechanicsMaking waves Schrödinger's catA quantum mechanical fairy taleBell's inequality The reality marketplace The matter microscopes Beginning the voyage: molecules, atoms and nucleiThe riddle of the hadrons Quarks Leptons Gluons Fields, particles and realityBeing and nothingness Identity and differenceThe gauge field theory revolutionProton decay The quantum and the cosmosLaying down the law The cosmic codeBibliographyIndex