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Old and New Questions in Physics, Cosmology, Philosophy, and Theoretical Biology

Essays in Honor of Wolfgang Yourgrau

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  • © 1983

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  1. Alwyn Merwe

    1. University of Denver, Denver, USA

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Table of contents (58 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
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  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction

      • Alwyn van der Merwe
      Pages 1-34

  3. Current Problems in Physics and Cosmology

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 35-35
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    2. On the Connections between Pico- and Mega-Cosmos

      • H.-J. Treder
      Pages 37-51

    3. The Zitterbewegung and the Einstein A Coefficient of Spontaneous Emission

      • A. O. Barut
      Pages 53-58

    4. Supersymmetry Groups

      • Peter G. Bergmann
      Pages 59-66

    5. Relativistic Phase Space Arising out of the Dirac Algebra

      • D. Bohm, B. J. Hiley
      Pages 67-76

    6. Why Mourn the Passing of Determinacy?

      • Hermann Bondi
      Pages 77-82

    7. On the True Ideas Underlying Wave Mechanics

      • Louis de Broglie
      Pages 83-86

    8. CPT Invariance as Basic for Interpreting Quantum Mechanics

      • O. Costa de Beauregard
      Pages 87-107

    9. The Hilbert Space Axiom in Quantum Mechanics

      • Stanley P. Gudder
      Pages 109-127

    10. The Cyclotron-Soliton Model of Terrestrial Kilometric Radiation

      • D. ter Haar
      Pages 129-132

    11. Clumpy Irregular Galaxies

      • Jean Heidmann
      Pages 133-144

    12. The Aporias of Cosmology and the Attempts at Overcoming Them by Nonstandard Models

      • H. Hönl, H. Dehnen
      Pages 145-167

    13. On Relativistic Quantum Theory

      • L. P. Horwitz
      Pages 169-188

    14. Vacuum Tunneling in Static Space-Times

      • C. J. Isham
      Pages 189-211

    15. On the Extensions of General Relativity

      • D. Ivanenko
      Pages 213-221

    16. Status and Perspectives of Cosmology

      • Toivo Jaakkola
      Pages 223-242

    17. The Connection between the Objective Description of Macrosystems and Quantum Mechanics of “Many Particles”

      • G. Ludwig
      Pages 243-263

    18. The Current Theory of Strong Interactions and the Problem of Quark Confinement

      • Stanley Mandelstam
      Pages 265-274
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About this book

Simply to say that this is a collection of essays in honor of the late Wolfgang Yourgrau (1908-1979) is to explain, at least for-the obviously many-"insiders," the unusually wide-ranging title of the present volume. In a Foreword to the Proceedings of the First International Colloquium (focusing on logic, physical reality, and history), held at the University of Denver in May of 1966 under their leadership, Wolfgang Y ourgrau and Allen Breck wrote, in an oblique reference to C. P. Snow: "Indeed there are not two or three or four cultures: there is only one culture; our generation has lost its awareness of this . . . . Historians, logicians, physicists-all are banded in one common enterprise, namely in their des ire to weave an enlightened fabric of human knowledge. " Augment, if you will, the foregoing categories of scholars with biologists, philos­ ophers, cosmologists, and theologians-all of whom, in addition to historians, Wolf­ gang Yourgrau, by dint of his inextinguishable enthusiasm and charismatic qualities, assembled in Denver for the Second and Third International Colloquia (in 1967 and 1974, respectively)-and a few other besides, and one arrives at a statement of the credo wh ich Y ourgrau not only professed, but consistently exemplified throughout his adult life.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Denver, Denver, USA

    Alwyn Merwe

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Old and New Questions in Physics, Cosmology, Philosophy, and Theoretical Biology

  • Book Subtitle: Essays in Honor of Wolfgang Yourgrau

  • Editors: Alwyn Merwe

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-8830-2

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 1983

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-306-40962-2Due: 01 April 1983

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4684-8832-6Published: 10 July 2012

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4684-8830-2Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XV, 920

  • Topics: Physics, general, Philosophy of Science, Characterization and Evaluation of Materials

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