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The seventeen chapters of this book were originally published in the "Griffith Observer" (a monthly magazine issued by the Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles). More often than not, essay collections suffer from a lack of cohesiveness, but this book…

Quantum theory is so shocking that Einstein could not bring himself to accept it. It is so important that it provides the fundamental underpinning of all modern sciences. Without it, we'd have no nuclear power or nuclear weapons, no TV, no computers,…

IN SEARCH OF SUSY is a concise and comprehensive tour of the particle world, from the electron to the search for a supersymmetric theory or SUSY. Here John Gribbin takes us into the most exciting area of physics today -- string theory. Combining the…

This special edition of Apollo in Perspective marks the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 Moon landing in 1969. Updated and revised throughout, it takes a retrospective look at the Apollo space program and the technology that was used to land a man…

String theory has advanced rapidly over the last 15 years and is increasingly seen as the best, and perhaps only, route to the complete unification of the four fundamental forces--the so-called "theory of everything". This text provides, in two…

Richard Feynman once quipped that "Time is what happens when nothing else does." But Julian Barbour disagrees: if nothing happened, if nothing changed, then time would stop. For time is nothing but change. It is change that we perceive occurring all…

Basic Ideas and Concepts in Nuclear Physics sets out in a clear and consistent manner the various elements of nuclear physics. Divided into four main parts: the constituents and characteristics of the nucleus; nuclear interactions, including the…

The Weak Interaction in Nuclear, Particle and Astrophysics presents concepts of the weak interaction and its integration into modern gauge theories of particle physics, such as grand unification and supersymmetry. The book explores the close…

Vanwege hun geheimzinnige eigenschappen zijn zwarte gaten een voortdurende bron van fascinatie. In dit Elementaire Deeltje beantwoordt Katherine Blundell een reeks vragen over dit fenomeen: Wat is een zwart gat? Hoe worden ze ontdekt? En wat zou er…

Doorbraken in de natuurkunde presenteert natuurkundige begrippen en inzichten in een historisch kader. Vaak zijn het individuele onderzoekers die een herkenbare bijdrage hebben geleverd aan de ontwikkeling van de natuurkunde, meestal in de vorm van…