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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... experiment, and the internal coherence and consistency of its laws and their consequences, that give science its resilience and authority. Of course, it is always possible that we are mistaken, that some fundamental changes will topple ...
... Experiments now probe details as small as 10 19 meters, and theorists concern themselves with structures as small as 10 35 meters. We have now “seen” atoms, broken apart their nuclei; and much of our industry and prosperity is based on ...
... experimental observation. These probing speculations give us not only the dazzle and wonder of an imagined world but the added amazement of knowing that this imagined world may well be the world we actually live in! The chapter “Your ...
... experiments in high-energy particle physics. Quantum field theory is also the setting for what has become known as ... experiment and patient observation of those phenomena at the extremes of size, the microworld of the particle ...
... experimental physics: he tried to get closer to the absolute zero of temperature.2 He was the first to liquefy helium. And in the course of systematic investigation of the optical, magnetic, and electrical properties of substances at ...
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 |