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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... structure of matter and the forces which act on it. Chapter 7 describes how this theory is used to yield amazingly precise agreement with the results of experiments in high-energy particle physics. Quantum field theory is also the ...
... structure, still less of the quantum mechanics and electromagnetic theory that underpin them. And though we don't have a theory to explain them, ceramic superconductors are already finding technological applications. There is a ...
... structures, new modes of description, the better to account for the emergent phenomena there encountered. It would be not just arrogant, but also stupid, to try to design a drug by starting from quantum electrodynamics! The problems of ...
... structure of atoms. But in Larmor's view “an exhaustive discovery of the intimate nature of the atom is beyond the scope of physics.” Nevertheless, speculation on the physics of atoms took up a large part of his address. In highlighting ...
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Inhalt
1 | |
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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 |