Inventing Reality. Physics As Language

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Very Good
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc
Publisher Place: New York
Publisher Year: 1990
Edition: Reprint

Description: 230 pages. Book is in Very good condition throughout.

Publishers Description: Physicists invented a language in order to talk about the world. This book does not set out to explain the discipline, but rather to explore the relationship between the language of physics and the world it describes. The physics'' whose history the author traces here is concerned with understanding the ultimate constituents of matter and the nature of the forces through which these constituents interact. The very precise language (mathematics) of physicists gives us an opportunity to see more clearly than is otherwise possible just how much of what we find in the world is a result of the way we talk about it. Anyone interested in the history of physics and its language would enjoy reading this book.

ISBN: 9780471524823