Frontiers: Twentieth Century PhysicsCRC Press, 4 ม.ค. 2002 - 532 หน้า The revolution in twentieth century physics has changed the way we think about space, time and matter and our own place in the universe. It has offered answers to many of the big questions of existence, such as the ultimate nature of things and the how the universe came into being. It has undermined our belief in a Newtonian mechanistic universe and a deterministic future, posing questions about parallel universes, time-travel and the origin and end of everything. At the same time we have witnessed amazing attempts at unification so that physicists are able to contemplate the discovery of a single 'theory of everything' from which we could derive the masses and types of all particles and their interactions. This book tells the story of these discoveries and the people who made them, largely through the work of Nobel Prize winning physicists. |
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OLD QUANTUM THEORY | 3 |
A NEW QUANTUM THEORY 192530 | 32 |
QUANTUM MYSTERIES | 65 |
QED | 109 |
EXPLAINING MATTER | 131 |
ATOMS AND NUCLEI | 133 |
THE STANDARD MODEL | 168 |
PARTICLE DETECTORS | 190 |
COSMOLOGY | 363 |
THERMODYNAMICS AND THE ARROW OF TIME | 389 |
TIME TEMPERATURE AND CHANCE | 391 |
TOWARD ABSOLUTE ZERO | 422 |
CPT | 442 |
APPENDICES | 462 |
THE SCHRÖDINGER EQUATION | 465 |
THE HYDROGEN ATOM | 468 |
PARTICLE ACCELERATORS | 207 |
TOWARD A THEORY OF EVERYTHING | 225 |
SPACE AND TIME | 247 |
THE SPEED OF LIGHT | 249 |
SPECIAL RELATIVITY | 263 |
GENERAL RELATIVITY | 292 |
ASTROPHYSICS AND COSMOLOGY | 315 |
OBSERVATIONAL ASTRONOMY | 317 |
STARS AND DISTANCES | 335 |
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