Free Download Quantum Mechanics of Fundamental Systems 1 by Claudio Teitelboim
English | PDF | 1988 | 243 Pages | ISBN : 0306427591 | 19.3 MB
I would like to take some poetic license in introducing this volume in a way that seems appropriate for a country, like Chile, that Iooks to the ocean. I believe it was Heisenberg who compared different times in physics with sailing a ship. He said that most of the time we keep our ships in port, or in the protection of a bay. But on a few occasions we go into the open sea, and those occasions are really the great times in theoretical physics, when everything can change. It does not seem totally unwarranted to hope that we are now entering one of those times. In that spirit, I would like to mention a wonderful book, which in English would be called something like Chile, Or a Crazy Geography.
(Benjamin Subercaseaux, Chile o una Loca Geografla, Editorial Ercilla, Santiago, Chile, 1940.) In it there is a quotation from the diary of Pigafetta, the navigator of Fernando Magellan, who discovered the strait in the south named after him. It says, " … the Captain General cried with happiness and called the cape Desired, because we bad desired it for a long time …. " I believe that we probably all had a similar feeling when the wonderful discoveries discussed in this volume took place. We feit that we had desired them for a Iong time. We bad also very much desired the conference on which this volume is based. We are grateful and honored to have bad with us friends who could, to use another phrase from the same book, "imagine maps before they exist."
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