Doing Physics: How Physicists Take Hold of the World (A Midland Book) - Softcover

Krieger, Martin H.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0253207010 ISBN 13: 9780253207012

Verlag: Indiana University Press, 1992

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"This is a mind-altering book—it ought to carry some sort of warning, that you will never be the same again once you have read it.... This is an important and provocative book, timely and full of insight. Fail to read it, and you may miss out on the physics of the future." —John Gribbin, New Scientist

"Krieger... excellently tells those in our human society outside the physics world how physicists think, plan, and go about understanding nature." —Choice

"... an excellent book... innovative." —Isis

"Krieger takes us into the world of the physicist, on a theoretically informed anthropological field trip."—Contemporary Sociology

Krieger describes the ways physicists actually do their work, their motives, and their ways of making sense of the world so that outsiders can understand it. He focuses on the "factory" of Nature; the analysis of the world as a clockworks of comparatively dumb parts; a set of kinship rules that govern families of particles; the setting of a simple stage, a vacuum, on which something arises out of nothing; and the items that make up a physicist’s tool kit.

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MARTIN H. KRIEGER who holds a doctorate in physics, is Professor of Planning at the University of Southern California and author of Advice and Planning and Marginalism and Discontinuity: Tools for the Crafts of Knowledge and Decision.

MARTIN H. KRIEGER who holds a doctorate in physics, is Professor of Planning at the University of Southern California and author of Advice and Planning and Marginalism and Discontinuity: Tools for the Crafts of Knowledge and Decision.

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This book is a cultural phenomenology of doing physics. It describes the ways physicists actually do their work--their motives, and their ways of making sense of the world--so that outsiders can understand it. Martin H. Krieger explains that physicists employ a small number of everyday notions to get at the world experimentally and conceptually.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Indiana University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1992
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0253207010
• ISBN 13: 9780253207012
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Auflage: 2
• Anzahl der Seiten: 192
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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