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Author : Sally Morgan
Release : 2008-02-04
Genre : Juvenile Nonfiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 044/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis From Greek Atoms to Quarks by : Sally Morgan
Download or read book From Greek Atoms to Quarks written by Sally Morgan. This book was released on 2008-02-04. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Examines the history of theories about the basic building block of the physical universe."--Source other than the Library of Congress.
Author : Necia H. Apfel
Release : 1985
Genre : Juvenile Nonfiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 932/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis It's All Elementary by : Necia H. Apfel
Download or read book It's All Elementary written by Necia H. Apfel. This book was released on 1985. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the search leading to the discovery of the smallest bits of matter, pieces too small to be subdivided, and discusses recent developments in the field of particle physics, or study of the invisible microworld of elementary particles.
Author : Fred Bortz
Release : 2003-12-15
Genre : Science
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 337/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Quark by : Fred Bortz
Download or read book The Quark written by Fred Bortz. This book was released on 2003-12-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses quarks, fundamental particles that make up protons, neutrons, and other subatomic particles, and describes the process by which scientists came to "detect" them.
Author : Jim Baggott
Release : 2017-06-10
Genre : Science
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 828/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Mass by : Jim Baggott
Download or read book Mass written by Jim Baggott. This book was released on 2017-06-10. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everything around us is made of 'stuff', from planets, to books, to our own bodies. Whatever it is, we call it matter or material substance. It is solid; it has mass. But what is matter, exactly? We are taught in school that matter is not continuous, but discrete. As a few of the philosophers of ancient Greece once speculated, nearly two and a half thousand years ago, matter comes in 'lumps', and science has relentlessly peeled away successive layers of matter to reveal its ultimate constituents. Surely, we can't keep doing this indefinitely. We imagine that we should eventually run up against some kind of ultimately fundamental, indivisible type of stuff, the building blocks from which everything in the Universe is made. The English physicist Paul Dirac called this 'the dream of philosophers'. But science has discovered that the foundations of our Universe are not as solid or as certain and dependable as we might have once imagined. They are instead built from ghosts and phantoms, of a peculiar quantum kind. And, at some point on this exciting journey of scientific discovery, we lost our grip on the reassuringly familiar concept of mass. How did this happen? How did the answers to our questions become so complicated and so difficult to comprehend? In Mass Jim Baggott explains how we come to find ourselves here, confronted by a very different understanding of the nature of matter, the origin of mass, and its implications for our understanding of the material world. Ranging from the Greek philosophers Leucippus and Democritus, and their theories of atoms and void, to the development of quantum field theory and the discovery of a Higgs boson-like particle, he explores our changing understanding of the nature of matter, and the fundamental related concept of mass.
Author : B. H. Fields
Release : 2015-07-15
Genre : Juvenile Nonfiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 481/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Understanding Quarks by : B. H. Fields
Download or read book Understanding Quarks written by B. H. Fields. This book was released on 2015-07-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explore the history of the discovery and the properties of the quark, one of the most basic constituents of matter.
