The Structure of Physics

• Main Authors: von Weizsäcker, Carl Friedrich (Author), Görnitz, Thomas (Author), Lyre, Holger (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2006.
• Series: Fundamental Theories of Physics ; 155
• Subjects: Physics.; Philosophy and science.; Gravitation.; Quantum physics.; Thermodynamics.; Elementary particles (Physics).; Quantum field theory.; Quantum Physics.; Philosophy of Science.; Physics, general.; Classical and Quantum Gravitation, Relativity Theory.; Elementary Particles, Quantum Field Theory.

Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker‘s "Aufbau der Physik", first published in 1985, was intended as an overview of his lifelong concern: an understanding of the unity of physics. That is, the idea of a quantum theory of binary alternatives (the so-called ur-theory), a unified quantum theoretical...

Table of Contents:

• The unity of physics
• The system of theories
• Probability and abstract quantum theory
• Quantum theory and spacetime
• Models of particles and interaction
• Cosmology and particle physics
• Time and information
• Irreversibility and entropy1
• Information and evolution
• On the interpretation of physics
• The problem of the interpretation of quantum theory
• The stream of information
• Beyond quantum theory
• In the language of philosophers.