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Basic Concepts of Modern Physics

Basic Concepts of Modern Physics

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Basic Concepts of Modern Physics: Quanta, Particles, Relativity

Georg Unger (author), translated by Hanna Edelglass

Basic Concepts of Modern Physics is an essential introduction for all those who are interested in gaining a better understanding of modern physics. In this unique text, Georg Unger provides clear descriptions of the conceptual bases of twentieth-century physics, including quantum mechanics, particles, and relativity theory, as well as other aspects relating to key physical concepts to phenomena.

Recognizing that quantum mechanical phenomena occur at a boundary between the experienced world and a concurrent world of "subnature" that is not perceptible to the senses, Dr. Unger provides a radical, non-reductionist concept of modern physics that is open to spiritual understanding.
Georg Unger (1909-1999) was born in Stuttgart, Germany and was a student at the first Waldorf school when it opened in 1919. He did his doctorate in Zurich, Switzerland with extensive studies in mathematics, physics and philosophy. In 1955, he became a visiting fellow at MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts, for studies in cybernetics with Norbert Wiener. As a visiting guest at the Institute for Advanced Studies at Princeton University, he met J. Robert Oppenheimer and, later, John von Neumann in Washington, for scientific philosophical discussions. Dr Unger later became the head of the Department of Mathematics and Astronomy at the Goetheanum in Dornach, Switzerland.
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Portal Books; 2nd Revised ed. edition (9 Jan. 2024)
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 216 pages
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 9781938685491
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 15.24 x 1.17 x 22.86 cm
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