EDITORIAL INFORMATION

Perfiles Cuánticos compiles the comments and works by three brilliant specialists in physics, the creators and pioneers in quantum physics: John Stewart Bell, John Archibald Wheeler and Michele Angelo Besso. The book deals mostly with conversations and lectures on deep issues of quantum mechanics. This work allows us to have a realistic vision of what these topics are and what they aren't. The way to communicate this science to us is through the profiles of these people. The author invites us to reach an intellectual as well as an emotional excitement in an honest way, without compromising scientific integrity.

(Extracted from the back cover).

GENERAL TABLE OF CONTENTS

-Contenido.

-Prefacio.

-John Stewart Bell: Ingeniero Cuántico.

-Epílogo.

-John Wheeler: Aprendiz Tardío.

-Epílogo.

-Besso.

-Bibliografía.

-Indice.

OUR REVIEW

Jeremy Bernstein, a professor of physics and the writer of numerous books and scientific articles, has undertaken an unusual adventure in this volume: to transmit his concern about the little knowledge that the general audience has about certain areas in physics through several conversations with renowned scientists in these areas. Thus, Bernstein, concerned as he was about the scarce popular interest in quantum physics, chose to have long dialogues with three of the most important personalities in our days whose work is completely involved with this science, and later transmit the result in book format. In this way the author makes available to us the knowledge about several deep aspects of quantum mechanics, just like Bell, Wheeler and Besso have meditated on them.

Jeremy Bernstein intertwines his own comments on the life and works of his interviewees with their own words. So, in some cases we can find ourselves facing absolutely philosophical musings and in other cases we can face purely technical situations. Certainly, the book will surely attract the admirers of these scientists being interviewed here, as well as the students of Physics who want to find something more than mere mathematics in that which they are learning.