Explaining the Universe: The New Age of PhysicsPrinceton University Press, 05.06.2018 - 264 Seiten In this fascinating book, John Charap offers a panoramic view of the physicist's world as the twenty-first century opens--a view that is entirely different from the one that greeted the twentieth century. We have learned that the universe is billions of galaxies larger than we imagined--and billions of years older. We know more about how it came to be and what it is. Because of physics, we live in a world of greater danger and more convenience, smaller particles and bigger ideas. |
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... electrons. Electrons were estimated to have dimensions on the order of 10 15 meters. Experiments now probe details ... electron. Techniques developed in research laboratories in the pursuit of “pure” science have a way, sooner or later ...
... electron and of radioactivity, for example—were made that were also to mark the end of what we now call classical physics. Before embarking on an account of some of the amazing advances in the twentieth century and looking into the ...
... electrons and atomic nuclei as governed by quantum mechanics and electromagnetism. But even the theory of quantum electrodynamics is an approximate, albeit effective, theory based on and derivable from a more fundamental level of ...
... electron as an elementary constituent of matter.1 This in turn stimulated an extensive discussion on the structure of atoms. But in Larmor's view “an exhaustive discovery of the intimate nature of the atom is beyond the scope of physics ...
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Inhalt
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3 HEAVENS ABOVE | 24 |
4 CHANCE AND CERTAINTY | 43 |
5 ORDER OUT OF CHAOS | 64 |
6 YOUR PLACE OR MINE | 77 |
7 MANY HISTORIES MANY FUTURES | 86 |
8 MICROCOSM | 100 |
11 IN THE BEGINNING | 151 |
12 DOWN TO EARTH | 172 |
13 EPILOGUE | 188 |
Notes | 195 |
Glossary | 209 |
Suggestions for Further Reading | 215 |
Index of Names | 219 |
General Index | 223 |