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LIBRARYAD009158凸Lb257  \n# ADVANCE PRAISE FOR THE QUEST FOR UNITY\n\n“We can only rejoice in this glorious account of mankind's striving over thecenturies to unravel the whole grand story of existence,from Plato,Hera-clitus,Parmenides,and Aristotle through Copernicus,Kepler,and Newtonto Einstein and Bohr,recounted here with French enlightenment andpassion for the telling point.\"  \n—John Archibald Wheeler,  \nProfessor Emeritus of Physics,Princeton University,author of  \nGeons,Black Holes,and Quatum Form:A Life in Physics  \n9780195120851ISBN 0-19-512085-X  \n# THEUESTFORUNITY\n\nTHE ADVENTUREOF PHYSICS  \nWhat could quantum mechanics have in com-mon with the philosophical musings of theancient Greeks?In our age of multimillion-dollar supercolliders,it is hard to imagine thatmodern physics owes anything to thinkers whopredate Descartes.But French physicistsÉtienne Klein and Marc Lachièze-Rey see anunbroken thread running from antiquity to thepresent—an ongoing search,throughout thehistory of science,for unity.  \nIn The Search for Unity the authorsreveal how the quest for the One has driven allthe great breakthroughs in science.They showhow the Greeks searched for the fundamentalelement in all things;how Galileo unified theearth with the heavens,by discovering valleysand mountains on the moon;and how Newtoncreated a single theory to describe the motionof the celestial bodies.With unequaled clarity,they explore the work of the most famous uni-  \nUSA$24.00  \nfier of all,Albert Einstein,who melded spaceand time into a combined space-time concept,and then embarked on an unsuccessful searchfor a single theory to explain all the physicallaws of the universe.Throughout the book,the authors stress the esthetic motives of sci-entists,how they recognize truth throughapprehension of mathematical beauty.And intracing the quest for unity up to the presentday,they illuminate the bizarre workings ofquantum mechanics and the sticky definitionof reality itself at the subatomic level.  \nA grand unification of all interac-tions still awaits discovery—but as Klein andLachièze-Rey show,the search itself is as fasci-nating as the end result may ever be.  \nÉTIENNE KLEIN and MARC LACHIEZE-REY areboth scientists with the Atomic Energy Com-mission in Sacey,France.AXEL REISINGER,translator,is a scientist at Sanders,a LockheedMartin Company,in Nashua,New Hampshire.  \nJacket design by Kathleen M.LynchJacket photograph CVCG 1997/FPG International  \nOXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESSwww.oup.com  \nThe Quest for Unity  \n●        ●        ●  \n# The Adventure of Physics\n\nÉtienne Klein and Marc Lachieze-ReyTRANSLATED BY AXEL REISINGER  \nNew York OxfordOxford University Press  \nOxford University Press  \nOxford New York  \nAthens Auckland Bangkok Bogotá Buenos Aires Calcutta  \nCape Town Chennai Dar es Salaam Delhi Florence Hong Kong lstanbul  \nKarachi Kuala Lumpur Madrid Melbourne Mexico City Mumbai  \nNairobi Paris São Paulo Singapore Taipei Tokyo Toronto Warsaw  \nand associated companies inBerlin lbadan  \nCopyright ◎1999 by Oxford University Press  \nOriginally published by Editions Albin Michel,  \n22,rue Huyghens,75680 Paris Cedex 14,FranceOriginal French title:La Quête de I'Unité:L′Aventure de la Physique  \nPublished by Oxford University Press,Inc.198 Madison Avenue,New York,New York 10016  \nOxford is a registered trademark of Oxford University Press  \nAll rights reserved.No part of this publication may be reproduced,stored in a retrieval system,or transmitted,in any form or by any means,electronic,mechanical,photocopying,recording,or otherwise,without the prior permission of Oxford University Press.  \nLibrary of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication DataKlein,Étienne.  \n(Quete de I'unité)  \n# The quest for unity:the adventure of physics /by Etienne Klein and Marc Lachièze-Rey;translated by Axel Reisinger.\n\np.cm.Includes index.  \nISBN0-19-512085-X  \n1.Physics—History.  \n2.Grand unified 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