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No Easy Answers : Science and the Pursuit of Knowledge /

"In No Easy Answers, Allan Franklin offers an accurate picture of science and scientific experiment for general readers and for scholars in the humanities and social sciences who may not have any background in physics. He contends that science is too important for the public not to have an unde...

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Autor principal: Franklin, Allan, 1938-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press, 2005.
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505 0 |a Introduction -- Experiment--Making or Breaking Theories -- The Violation of Parity Conservation -- The Meselson-Stahl Experiment: "The Most Beautiful Experiment in Biology" -- Emil Konopinski and the Theory of?-Decay -- The Rise and Fall of the Fifth Force -- The Search for What Is There -- The Discovery of the Electron -- The Road to the Neutrino -- How Many Neutrinos? -- The Appearance and Disappearance of the 17-keV Neutrino -- The Missing Solar Neutrinos -- Blas Cabrera and the Search for Magnetic Monopoles -- The Trouble with Scientists -- Robert Millikan and the Charge of the Electron -- The Early Searches for Gravity Waves -- Atomic Parity Violation: Do Mutants Die of Natural Causes? -- Conclusion: No Easy Answers. 
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