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From Ultra Rays to Astroparticles: A Historical Introduction to Astroparticle Physics

By Brigitte Falkenburg , Wolfgang Rhode (auth.) , Wolfgang Rhode (eds.)

Book information

Publisher
Springer Netherlands
Year
2012
ISBN
978-94-007-5421-8, 978-94-007-5422-5
DOI
10.1007/978-94-007-5422-5
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
7 MB (7717922 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
346\344
Topic
Physics
Orientation
yes
Scanned
yes
Time added
2013-08-01 04:00:00
Astrophysics and Astroparticles;History and PhilosAstrophysics and Cosmology

Description

The scope of the book is to give an overview of the history of astroparticle physics, starting with the discovery of cosmic rays (Victor Hess, 1912) and its background (X-ray, radioactivity). The book focusses on the ways in which physics changes in the course of this history. The following changes run parallel, overlap, and/or interact: - Discovery of effects like X-rays, radioactivity, cosmic rays, new particles but also progress through non-discoveries (monopoles) etc. - The change of the description of nature in physics, as consequence of new theoretical questions at the beginning of the 20th century, giving rise to quantum physics, relativity, etc. - The change of experimental methods, cooperations, disciplinary divisions. With regard to the latter change, a main topic of the book is to make the specific multi-diciplinary features of astroparticle physics clear.

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