Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker: Major Texts in Physics

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Drieschner, Michael (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Series: SpringerBriefs on Pioneers in Science and Practice, 22
• Subjects: Physics.; Quantum physics.; Astronomy.; Astrophysics.; Cosmology.; History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics.; Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology.; Quantum Physics.

This book presents a collection of texts by the German physicist and philosopher Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker (1912-2007), for use in seminars on the history, epistemology and structure of physics. Most texts appear in English for the first time. Weizsäcker became famous through his works in physic...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• On Elementary Transmutations in the Interior of Stars. Paper II
• The Formation of the Planetary System
• The History of Nature, Introduction
• The Second Law and the Difference between Past and Future
• A Sketch of the Unity of Physics
• Quantum Theory
• Probability and Abstract Quantum Theory
• The Philosophy of Alternatives
• Matter and Consciousness
• Matter, Energy, Information.