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Pesic, Peter was born on May 11, 1948 in San Francisco, California, United States. Son of Paul and Milena (Boyovic) Pesic.
( The separateness and connection of individuals is perha...)
The separateness and connection of individuals is perhaps the central question of human life: What, exactly, is my individuality? To what degree is it unique? To what degree can it be shared, and how? To the many philosophical and literary speculations about these topics over time, modern science has added the curious twist of quantum theory, which requires that the elementary particles of which everything consists have no individuality at all. All aspects of chemistry depend on this lack of individuality, as do many branches of physics. From where, then, does our individuality come?In Seeing Double, Peter Pesic invites readers to explore this intriguing set of questions. He draws on literary and historical examples that open the mind (from Homer to Martin Guerre to Kafka), philosophical analyses that have helped to make our thinking and speech more precise, and scientific work that has enabled us to characterize the phenomena of nature. Though he does not try to be all-inclusive, Pesic presents a broad range of ideas, building toward a specific point of view: that the crux of modern quantum theory is its clash with our ordinary concept of individuality. This represents a departure from the usual understanding of quantum theory. Pesic argues that what is bizarre about quantum theory becomes more intelligible as we reconsider what we mean by individuality and identity in ordinary experience. In turn, quantum identity opens a new perspective on us.
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(Children ask, "Why is the sky blue?" but the question als...)
Children ask, "Why is the sky blue?" but the question also puzzled Plato, Leonardo, and even Newton, who unlocked so many other secrets. The search for an answer continued for centuries; in 1862 Sir John Herschel listed the color and polarization of sky light as "the two great standing enigmas of meteorology." In Sky in a Bottle, Peter Pesic takes us on a quest to the heart of this mystery, tracing the various attempts of science, history, and art to solve it. He begins with the scholars of the ancient world and continues through the natural philosophers of the Enlightenment, the empiricists of the scientific revolution, and beyond. The cast of characters includes Aristotle, Leonardo da Vinci, Kepler, Descartes, Euler, Saussure, Goethe, Rayleigh, and Einstein; but the protagonist is the question itself, and the story tells how we have tried to answer it. Pesic's odyssey introduces us to central ideas of chemistry, optics, and atomic physics. He describes the polarization of light, Rayleigh scattering, and connections between the appearance of the sky and Avogadro's number. He discusses changing representations of the sky in art, from new styles of painting to new pigments that created new colors for paint. He considers what the sky's nighttime brightness might tell us about the size and density of the universe. And Pesic asks another, daring, question: Can we put the sky in a bottle? Can we recreate and understand its blueness here on earth? This puzzle, he says, opens larger perspectives; questions of the color and brightness of the sky touch on secrets of matter and light, the scope of the universe in space and time, the destiny of the earth, and deep human feelings.
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( Albert Einstein characterized the work of James Clerk M...)
Albert Einstein characterized the work of James Clerk Maxwell as the "most profound and the most fruitful that physics has experienced since the time of Newton." Max Planck went even further, declaring that "he achieved greatness unequalled," and Richard Feynman asserted that "From a long view of the history of mankind — seen from, say, ten thousand years from now — there can be little doubt that the most significant event of the nineteenth century will be judged as Maxwell's discovery of the laws of electrodynamics." Maxwell made numerous other contributions to the advancement of science, but the greatest work of his life was devoted to electricity. An Elementary Treatise on Electricity appeared at a time when very few books on electrical measurements were available to students, and its compact treatment not only elucidates the theory of electricity but also serves to develop electrical ideas in readers' minds. The author describes experiments that demonstrate the principal facts relating an electric charge as a quantity capable of being measured, deductions from these facts, and the exhibition of electrical phenomena. This volume, published posthumously from Maxwell's lecture notes at the Cavendish Laboratory — which he founded at the University of Cambridge — is supplemented by a selection of articles from his landmark book, Electricity and Magnetism. A classic of science, this volume is an eminently suitable text for upper-level undergraduates and graduate students.
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(Este libro es la crónica de la resolución de un misterio:...)
Este libro es la crónica de la resolución de un misterio: el azul del cielo. Los hombres se ha preguntado durante siglos cuál es la razón de que el aire que nos rodea, transparente e imperceptible, adquiera su tonalidad azul característica durante el día, sobre nuestras cabezas. Peter Pesic visita en cada capítulo de este l
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Pesic, Peter was born on May 11, 1948 in San Francisco, California, United States. Son of Paul and Milena (Boyovic) Pesic.
Louisiana State University (Bachelor of Arts, 1970. Juris Doctor, 1974). Order of the Coif. Associate Editor, Louisiana State Law Review, 1973-1974.
Worked at Brown & Root, Inc. and Associated Companies. Admitted to the bar, 1974, Louisiana. 1982, Texas.
Order of the Coif.
Associate Editor, Louisiana State Law Review, 1973-1974. Author: "The Louisiana Concept of Res Judicata," Louisiana Law Review, 1974. "The Parole-Release Decision-Due Process and Discretion," Louisiana Law Review, 1973.
Member: State Bar of Texas. Louisiana State and American Bar Associations. American Corporate Counsel Association.
(Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary).
( The separateness and connection of individuals is perha...)
( Albert Einstein characterized the work of James Clerk M...)
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(Este libro es la crónica de la resolución de un misterio:...)
Fellow American Association for the Advancement of Science. Member History Science Society, American Musicological Society, American Physical Society, American Brahms Society, American Beethoven Society, Mozart Society of America.
Married Ssu Weng, June 2, 1984. Children: Andrei, Alexei.