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Hidden Worlds : Hunting for Quarks in Ordinary Matter /
No one has ever seen a quark. Yet physicists seem to know quite a lot about the properties and behavior of these ubiquitous elementary particles. Here a top researcher introduces us to a fascinating but invisible realm that is part of our everyday life. Timothy Smith tells us what we know about quar...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton, NJ :
Princeton University Press,
[2018]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgments
- 1. Hidden Worlds: The Search for Quarks in Ordinary Matter
- 2. The Rise and Fall (for the Right Reasons) and Rise Again of the Quark Hypothesis
- 3. The Players and the Stage
- 4. The Nature of the Evidence
- 5. Measuring a Rainbow
- 6. Particle Taxonomy and Quark Soup
- 7. The Shape of Things
- 8. Three Quarks Plus
- 9. Digging a Little Deeper
- 10. A New Age of Exploration within the Hidden World
- Glossary
- Index