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The edge of physics: a journey to Earth's extremes to unlock the secrets of the universe

Book information

Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Year
2010
ISBN
978-0-618-88468-1, 0618884688
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
3 MB (2720359 bytes)
Pages
322\322
Time added
2019-09-25 00:17:22

Description

Monks and astronomers -- The experiment that detects nothing -- Little neutral ones -- The Paranal light quartet -- Fire, rock, and ice -- Three thousand eyes in the Karoo -- Antimatter over Antarctica -- Einstein meets quantum physics at the South Pole -- The heart of the matter -- Whispers from other universes -- Appendix I. The standard model of particle physics -- Appendix II. From the Big Bang to now : the standard model of cosmology.  Read more... Abstract: Monks and astronomers -- The experiment that detects nothing -- Little neutral ones -- The Paranal light quartet -- Fire, rock, and ice -- Three thousand eyes in the Karoo -- Antimatter over Antarctica -- Einstein meets quantum physics at the South Pole -- The heart of the matter -- Whispers from other universes -- Appendix I. The standard model of particle physics -- Appendix II. From the Big Bang to now : the standard model of cosmology

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