The matter of everything how curiosity, physics, and improbable experiments changed the world
"An accelerator physicist's fascinating journey through the experiments that uncovered the nature of matter and made the modern world. Towards the end of the nineteenth century, many scientists believed that the project of physics was nearly complete, that there was little left to explore....
| Main Author: | Sheehy, Suzie (Author) |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Alfred A. Knopf,
2023.
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| Edition: | First American edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Dismantling classical physics
- Cathode ray tube: X-rays and the electron
- The gold foil experiment: The structure of the atom
- The Photoelectric Effect: The light quantum
- Matter beyond atoms
- Cloud chambers: Cosmic rays and a shower of new particles
- The first particle accelerators: Splitting the atom
- Cyclotron: Artificial production of radioactivity
- Synchrotron radiation: An unexpected light emerges
- The standard model and beyond
- Particle physics goes large: The strange resonances
- Mega-detectors: Finding the elusive Neutrino
- Linear accelerators: The discovery of quarks
- The Tevatron: A third generation of matter
- The large Hadron collider: The Higgs Boson and beyond
- Future experiments
- Acknowledgements
- Notes
- Index.