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Understanding the universe : from quarks to the cosmos
- Title
- Understanding the universe : from quarks to the cosmos / Don Lincoln.
- Author
- Lincoln, Don.
- Publication
- New Jersey : World Scientific, 2004.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Use in library | QC793.26 .L56 2004 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- xxiv, 567 pages : illustrations; 23 cm
- Summary
- Lincoln, a physicist at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, helps explain, as the foreword writer (a theoretical cosmologist) puts it: " ... what compels scientists to work for years on the world's most complicated experiments ..." After declaring physics the most interesting science and overviewing its scope for a general audience, he traces the history of what is known/theorized in the field up to "exotic physics" (i.e., the next frontier). Chapters begin with quotes and include.
- Down-to-earth explanations. The volume concludes with technical appendices and a glossary. Annotation 2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Popular works.
- Einführung.
- Note
- Includes indexes.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 525-533) and index.
- Contents
- Early history -- The path to knowledge (history of particle physics) -- Quarks and leptons -- Forces : what holds it all together -- Hunting for the Higgs -- Accelerators and detectors : tools of the trade -- Near term mysteries -- Exotic physics (the next frontier) -- Recreating the universe 10,000,000 times a second -- Epilogue : why do we do it? -- Appendix A. Greek symbols -- Appendix B. Scientific jargon -- Appendix C. Particle-naming rules -- Appendix D. Essential relativity and quantum mechanics -- Appendix E. Higgs boson production -- Appendix F. Neutrino oscillations.
- ISBN
- 981238703X
- 9789812387035
- 9812387056
- 9789812387059
- LCCN
- 2004041411
- OCLC
- ocm54205996
- 54205996
- SCSB-1343277
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library