Physicists Look Back
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Physicists Look Back
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Author : J Roche
language : en
Publisher: CRC Press
Release Date : 1990-01-01
Physicists Look Back written by J Roche and has been published by CRC Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990-01-01 with Science categories.
In Physicists Look Back: Studies in the History of Physics, various international contributors ranging from physicists, engineers, theoreticians, experimentalists, and information scientists to educationalists, science historians, sociologists, and physics teachers discuss the history of physics. They describe their own research developments, demonstrate ways the history of physics can be helpful in teaching physics and in clearing up difficult concepts, and offer professional advice about resources and methods. This diversified book provides a historical background to modern physics and illustrates how an appreciation of the historical context of physics can lead to a better understanding of modern physics. It covers the history of ozone, the ionosphere, plasma physics, the technical developments of the electron microscope and crystallographic x-ray photography, and the history of the Josephson effect. Well illustrated and containing some autobiographical research not previously published, this resource is valuable reading for professional physicists, physics teachers, educationalists, historians and philosophers of science, and physicists.
Physics Before And After Einstein
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Author : Marco Mamone Capria
language : en
Publisher: IOS Press
Release Date : 2005
Physics Before And After Einstein written by Marco Mamone Capria and has been published by IOS Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
It is now a century ago that one of the icons of modern physics published some of the most influential scientific papers of all times. With his work on relativity and quantum theory, Albert Einstein has altered the field of physics forever. It should not come as a surprise that looking back at Einstein's work, one needs to rethink the whole scope of physics, before and after his time. This books aims to provide a perspective on the history of modern physics, spanning from the late 19th century up to today. It is not an encyclopaedic work, but it presents the groundbreaking and sometimes provocative main contributions by Einstein as marking the line between 'old' and 'new' physics, and expands on some of the developments and open issues to which they gave rise. This presentation is not meant as a mere celebration of Einstein's work, but as a critical appraisal which provides accurate historical and conceptual information. The contributing authors all have a reputation for working on themes related to Einstein's work and its consequences.Therefore, the collection of papers gives a good representation of what happened in the 100 years after Einstein's landmark Annalen der Physik articles. All people interested in the field of physics, history of science and epistemology could benefit from this book. An effort has been made to make the book attractive not only to scientists, but also to people with a more basic knowledge of mathematics and physics.
At The Edge Of Time
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Author : Dan Hooper
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2019-11-05
At The Edge Of Time written by Dan Hooper and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-11-05 with Science categories.
A new look at the first few seconds after the Big Bang—and how research into these moments continues to revolutionize our understanding of our universe Scientists in the past few decades have made crucial discoveries about how our cosmos evolved over the past 13.8 billion years. But there remains a critical gap in our knowledge: we still know very little about what happened in the first seconds after the Big Bang. At the Edge of Time focuses on what we have recently learned and are still striving to understand about this most essential and mysterious period of time at the beginning of cosmic history. Delving into the remarkable science of cosmology, Dan Hooper describes many of the extraordinary and perplexing questions that scientists are asking about the origin and nature of our world. Hooper examines how we are using the Large Hadron Collider and other experiments to re-create the conditions of the Big Bang and test promising theories for how and why our universe came to contain so much matter and so little antimatter. We may be poised to finally discover how dark matter was formed during our universe’s first moments, and, with new telescopes, we are also lifting the veil on the era of cosmic inflation, which led to the creation of our world as we know it. Wrestling with the mysteries surrounding the initial moments that followed the Big Bang, At the Edge of Time presents an accessible investigation of our universe and its origin.
Putting Ourselves Back In The Equation
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Author : George Musser
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2023-11-09
Putting Ourselves Back In The Equation written by George Musser and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-11-09 with Science categories.
Distant galaxies, dark matter, black holes – elusive, incomprehensible and inhospitable – these are the building blocks of modern physics. But where do we fit in this picture? For centuries, we have separated mind from matter. While physicists have pursued a theory of ‘everything’ with single-minded purpose, the matter of the mind, of human consciousness, has been conveniently sidestepped and ignored – consigned to priests, philosophers and poets. With the ambition of Stephen Hawking, Carlo Rovelli and Brian Cox, Putting Ourselves Back in the Equation sets out a bold new vision for theoretical physics, unrestricted by sleek equations and neat formulations. Combining cutting-edge neuroscience with the latest in quantum mechanics, acclaimed writer Musser offers a new interpretation of human consciousness. From bizarre cognitive phenomena, like lucid dreaming and self-taught synaesthesia, to the latest technological developments in AI, Musser asks: what can physics teach us about what it means to be human?
Quantum Legacies
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Author : David Kaiser
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2020-03-25
Quantum Legacies written by David Kaiser and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-03-25 with Science categories.
The ideas at the root of quantum theory remain stubbornly, famously bizarre: a solid world reduced to puffs of probability; particles that tunnel through walls; cats suspended in zombielike states, neither alive nor dead; and twinned particles that share entangled fates. For more than a century, physicists have grappled with these conceptual uncertainties while enmeshed in the larger uncertainties of the social and political worlds around them, a time pocked by the rise of fascism, cataclysmic world wars, and a new nuclear age. In Quantum Legacies, David Kaiser introduces readers to iconic episodes in physicists’ still-unfolding quest to understand space, time, and matter at their most fundamental. In a series of vibrant essays, Kaiser takes us inside moments of discovery and debate among the great minds of the era—Albert Einstein, Erwin Schrödinger, Stephen Hawking, and many more who have indelibly shaped our understanding of nature—as they have tried to make sense of a messy world. Ranging across space and time, the episodes span the heady 1920s, the dark days of the 1930s, the turbulence of the Cold War, and the peculiar political realities that followed. In those eras as in our own, researchers’ ambition has often been to transcend the vagaries of here and now, to contribute lasting insights into how the world works that might reach beyond a given researcher’s limited view. In Quantum Legacies, Kaiser unveils the difficult and unsteady work required to forge some shared understanding between individuals and across generations, and in doing so, he illuminates the deep ties between scientific exploration and the human condition.
A Universe From Nothing
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Author : Lawrence M. Krauss
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2012-01-10
A Universe From Nothing written by Lawrence M. Krauss and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-01-10 with Science categories.
Bestselling author and acclaimed physicist Lawrence Krauss offers a paradigm-shifting view of how everything that exists came to be in the first place. “Where did the universe come from? What was there before it? What will the future bring? And finally, why is there something rather than nothing?” One of the few prominent scientists today to have crossed the chasm between science and popular culture, Krauss describes the staggeringly beautiful experimental observations and mind-bending new theories that demonstrate not only can something arise from nothing, something will always arise from nothing. With a new preface about the significance of the discovery of the Higgs particle, A Universe from Nothing uses Krauss’s characteristic wry humor and wonderfully clear explanations to take us back to the beginning of the beginning, presenting the most recent evidence for how our universe evolved—and the implications for how it’s going to end. Provocative, challenging, and delightfully readable, this is a game-changing look at the most basic underpinning of existence and a powerful antidote to outmoded philosophical, religious, and scientific thinking.
Einstein Wrote Back
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Author : John W. Moffat
language : en
Publisher: Dundurn.com
Release Date : 2012-10-12
Einstein Wrote Back written by John W. Moffat and has been published by Dundurn.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-10-12 with Science categories.
John W. Moffat was a poor student of math and science. That is, until he read Einstein’s famous paper on general relativity. Realizing instantly that he had an unusual and unexplained aptitude for understanding the complex physics described in the paper, Moffat wrote a letter to Einstein that would change the course of his life. Einstein Wrote Back tells the story of Moffat’s unusual entry into the world of academia and documents his career at the frontlines of twentieth-century physics as he worked and associated with some of the greatest minds in scientific history, including Niels Bohr, Fred Hoyle, Wolfgang Pauli, Paul Dirac, Erwin Schrödinger, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Abdus Salam, among others. Taking readers inside the classrooms and minds of these giants of modern science, Moffat affectionately exposes the foibles and eccentricities of these great men, as they worked on the revolutionary ideas that, today, are the very foundation of modern physics and cosmology.
The Order Of Time
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Author : Carlo Rovelli
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2018-04-26
The Order Of Time written by Carlo Rovelli and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-04-26 with Social Science categories.
'A dazzling book ... the new Stephen Hawking' Sunday Times The bestselling author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics takes us on an enchanting, consoling journey to discover the meaning of time 'We are time. We are this space, this clearing opened by the traces of memory inside the connections between our neurons. We are memory. We are nostalgia. We are longing for a future that will not come.' Time is a mystery that does not cease to puzzle us. Philosophers, artists and poets have long explored its meaning while scientists have found that its structure is different from the simple intuition we have of it. From Boltzmann to quantum theory, from Einstein to loop quantum gravity, our understanding of time has been undergoing radical transformations. Time flows at a different speed in different places, the past and the future differ far less than we might think, and the very notion of the present evaporates in the vast universe. With his extraordinary charm and sense of wonder, bringing together science, philosophy and art, Carlo Rovelli unravels this mystery. Enlightening and consoling, The Order of Time shows that to understand ourselves we need to reflect on time -- and to understand time we need to reflect on ourselves. Translated by Simon Carnell and Erica Segre
50 Years Of Quarks
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Author : Harald Fritzsch
language : en
Publisher: World Scientific
Release Date : 2015-03-11
50 Years Of Quarks written by Harald Fritzsch and has been published by World Scientific this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-03-11 with Science categories.
Today it is known that the atomic nuclei are composed of smaller constituents, the quarks. A quark is always bound with two other quarks, forming a baryon or with an antiquark, forming a meson. The quark model was first postulated in 1964 by Murray Gell-Mann — who coined the name “quark” from James Joyce's novel Finnegans Wake — and by George Zweig, who then worked at CERN. In the present theory of strong interactions — Quantum Chromodynamics proposed by H Fritzsch and Gell-Mann in 1972 — the forces that bind the quarks together are due to the exchange of eight gluons. On the 50th anniversary of the quark model, this invaluable volume looks back at the developments and achievements in the elementary particle physics that eventuated from that beautiful model. Written by an international team of distinguished physicists, each of whom have made major developments in the field, the volume provides an essential overview of the present state to the academics and researchers. Contents:A Schematic Model of Baryons and Mesons (M Gell-Mann)Quarks (M Gell-Mann)Concrete Quarks (G Zweig)On the Way from Sakatons to Quarks (L B Okun)My Life with Quarks (S L Glashow)Quarks and the Bootstrap Era (D Horn)From Symmetries to Quarks and Beyond (S Meshkov)How I Got to Work with Feynman on the Covariant Quark Model (F Ravndal)What is a Quark? (G L Kane & M J Perry)Insights and Puzzles in Particle Physics (H Leutwyler)Quarks and QCD (H Fritzsch)The Discovery of Gluon (J Ellis)Discovery of the Gluon (S L Wu)The Parton Model and Its Applications (T M Yan & S D Drell)From Old Symmetries to New Symmetries: Quark, Leptons and B — L (R N Mohapatra)Quark Mass Hierarchy and Flavor Mixing Puzzles (Z-Z Xing)Analytical Determination of the QCD Quark Masses (C Dominquez)CP Violation in Six Quarks Scheme — Legacy of Sakata Model (M Kobayashi)The Constituent-Quark Model — Nowadays (W Plessas)From Ω- to Ωb, Doubly Heavy Baryons and Exotics (M Karliner)Quark Elastic Scattering as a Source of High Transverse Momentum Mesons (R Field)Exclusive Processes and the Fundamental Structure of Hadrons (S J Brodsky)Quark-Gluon Soup — The Perfectly Liquid Phase of QCD (U Heinz)Quarks and Anomalies (R J Crewther)Lessons from Supersymmetry: "Instead-of-Confinement" Mechanism (M Shifman & A Yung)Quarks and a Unified Theory of Nature Fundamental Forces (I Antoniadis)SU(8) Family Unification with Boson-Fermion Balance (S L Adler) Readership: Academics and researchers interested in elementary particle physics. Keywords:Quark;Gluon;Baryon;Meson;Hadron;Elementary Particles;QCD
Physics To Philosophy And Back Hb
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Author : BENEDICTUS
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2024-10-06
Physics To Philosophy And Back Hb written by BENEDICTUS and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-10-06 with categories.
What do we really know about the world? Physics utilizes complex equations to avoid having to answer philosophical questions like this. Consider, for example, the fact that the motion of particles is described in terms of straight lines, while any line that we can actually draw is never perfectly straight. Working physicists adopt many of such presuppositions, rarely stopping to question the correspondence between physical equations and reality. This has resulted in the common misconception that there is a clear divide between Newton's 17th century physics and that of Einstein's on account of different mathematical descriptions. However, if equations do not always represent reality, what can they tell us about reality?This book focuses on some of the philosophical problems underlying all theories in physics, such as the nature of time (is time just 'that which is measured by a clock' or is it more than that?). It may seem as if these problems were more or less solved in the three-and-a-half centuries that have passed since Newton's time. But the philosophical 'open ends' were the same for Einstein and remain the same to this day. Philosophy and physics are two sides of the same coin.Filled with personal anecdotes and amusing examples, this book provides the perfect introduction to the topic for readers with a non-scientific background. It also enables the reader to come to their own informed conclusion about the relation between physics and the reality in which we live.