Quantum Mechanics at the Crossroads: New Perspectives from History, Philosophy and Physics (repost)

James Evans and Alan S. Thorndike, “Quantum Mechanics at the Crossroads: New Perspectives from History, Philosophy and Physics”
2009 | ISBN-10: 3642069142 | 260 pages | PDF | 3 MB

This volume brings together leading quantum physicists to expound on the meaning and future directions of quantum mechanics. It offers new insights from different vantage points to tackle essential questions in quantum mechanics and its interpretation. All the authors have written for a broad readership, and the resulting volume will appeal to everyone wishing to keep abreast of new developments in quantum mechanics, as well as its history and philosophy.

Physics at the Highest Energy and Luminosity: To Understand the Origin of Mass

Physics at the Highest Energy and Luminosity: To Understand the Origin of Mass (The Subnuclear Series)
by Antonino Zichichi
2012 | PDF | 421 pages | ISBN-10: 1461365031 | English | 10.9 MB

During July 1991. a group of 99 physicists from 57 laboratories in 27 countries met in Erice for the 29th Course of the International School of Subnuclear Physics. The countries represented were: Algeria. Argentina. Austria. Brazil. Canada. China. France. Germany. Greece. India. Ireland. Israel. Italy. New Zealand. Norway. Pakistan. Poland. Portugal. Rumania. Spain. Sweden. Switzerland. Thailand. Turkey. The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. the United Kingdom. and the United States of America. The School was sponsored by the European Physical Society (EPS). the Italian Ministry of Education (MPI). the Italian Ministry of University and Scientific Research. the Sicilian Regional Government (ERS). and the Weizmann Institute of Science. The opening lecture of the School was given by Professor Lev Okun. A few remarks are in order. In the pre-Gorbachev era. Professor Okun’s case was the most difficult: in spite of many invitations he was not allowed to come and lecture at Erice. Nowadays the hard times have nearly been forgotten. It is with pleasure that I recall here a discussion I had with my friend Lev Okun in my house during one of his rare visits to CERN. The after-dinner topic was Galileo Galilei and his great discovery; i. e . • the equality between gravitational and inertial masses – a discovery that we are celebrating now. four hundred years later. Here is a synthesis of Professor Okun’s position: given a massive particle. the only quantity we should consider when talking about masses.

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Knots and Physics, 4 edition

Knots and Physics, 4 edition (Series on Knots and Everything, Book 53) by Louis H Kauffman
English | 2012 | ISBN: 9814383007, 9814383015 | 864 pages | PDF | 125 MB

This invaluable book is an introduction to knot and link invariants as generalized amplitudes for a quasi-physical process. The demands of knot theory, coupled with a quantum-statistical framework, create a context that naturally and powerfully includes an extraordinary range of interrelated topics in topology and mathematical physics. The author takes a primarily combinatorial stance toward knot theory and its relations with these subjects. This stance has the advantage of providing direct access to the algebra and to the combinatorial topology, as well as physical ideas.

The book is divided into two parts: Part I is a systematic course on knots and physics starting from the ground up, and Part II is a set of lectures on various topics related to Part I. Part II includes topics such as frictional properties of knots, relations with combinatorics, and knots in dynamical systems.

In this new edition, an article on Virtual Knot Theory and Khovanov Homology has beed added.

Readership: Physicists and mathematicians.