Physics Topics presented by John Gribbin  – 12-18-13

Chapter – Modern Times

            counting photons – Bose – p86

            backwards in time – Feynman – path integrals – p80

            Fermi-Dirac statistics – p89

            absorption and emission of a photon by an electro – p92

            triumph of QED – p98

            electron moving positively in time and a positron moving negatively    in time

            Feynman-Wheeler concept – p102

            QED

Chapter – Strange but True

             polarization

            Copenhagen interpretation – p113

            electron plus a positron = a photon (gamma ray) p122

            particle entanglement – p126

            quantum cryptography – p128

            Franz Hasselbach – Univ. of Tubingen136

Chapter – Desperate Remedies

            collapse of Copenhagen school

            nerve synapses and speed of light – p152

            von Neumann’s mistake – p152

            hidden variables theory

            David Mermin – p155

            Peierls, The Ghost in the Atom, p156

            many universes – p160

            Deutsch: The Fabric of Reality – p165

            complexity and arrow of time – Prigogine – p180

Chapter – Thinking about Thinking

            Andrew Pickering – Constructing Quarks, p188

            William poundstone – Labyrinths of Reason, p191

            QCD, p191

            gell-Mann and discovery of quarks, p193

            Zweig, CERN. p193

            Curvature of space – Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky in 1829, p202

            Stephen Hawkings and Roger Penrose , p209

            Martin krieger, Doing Physics, p214

            David Bohm and quantum reality, p220

Epiloque

            Wheeler-Feynman model of electromagnetism – radiation, p225

            Strings and Gravity, p231

            space-time, manifolds, p232

            complexity, p234

            Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen, p241

            The Character of Physical Law, R. Feynman, p246