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| Genre/Form: | Biography |
|---|---|
| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Peat, F. David, 1938- Infinite potential. Reading, Mass. : Addison Wesley, c1997 (OCoLC)624798162 |
| Named Person: | David Bohm; David Joseph Bohm |
| Material Type: | Biography |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
F David Peat |
| ISBN: | 0201406357 9780201406351 |
| OCLC Number: | 34894427 |
| Description: | viii, 353 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Childhood: from fragmentation to flow -- From Penn State to Caltech -- A vision of light -- From Niels Bohr to Karl Marx -- Princeton -- Un-American activities -- Hidden variables -- Brazil: into exile -- Causality and chance -- Israel: the world falls apart -- Bristol: encounters with famous men -- Birkbeck: thought and what may lie beyond -- Language and perception -- The implicate order -- Dialogue and disorder -- The edge of something unknown. |
| Series Title: | Helix books |
| Responsibility: | F. David Peat. |
Abstract:
created a storm of controversy, yet may well have opened the door to a much deeper theory of the nature of reality. In these pages, the general reader will obtain the first clear, non-mathematical explanation of Bohm's brilliant theory, which gave new hope of finding the elusive "hidden variables" theory, the missing piece of the quantum mechanics puzzle for which Albert Einstein had spent decades searching. As Peat shows, Einstein had such a high regard for Bohm and his.
work that he made Bohm his close collaborator and friend. But Bohm the scientist was also Bohm the courageous human being. Born in a small town in Pennsylvania, he began his career as an American physicist, but was forced to give up his U.S. citizenship and flee America's borders by "Tail Gunner Joe" McCarthy's anti-communist witch hunters. This book captures the suspense of Bohm's steadfast refusal to bow before McCarthy's inquisitors and betray his colleagues, and the.
suffering he endured in his subsequent exile and years of wandering before he finally found sympathy for his plight and support for his theories at Birkbeck College in England.
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