The Wizzard of Quarks. - A Fantasy of Particle Physics

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Robert Gilmore - The Wizzard of Quarks. - A Fantasy of Particle Physics.
Dorothy's first day of her visit to the city starts uneventfully enough, on a subway ride with Uncle Henry and Aunt Em. But then there is a lurch - and... Lire la suite
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Résumé

Dorothy's first day of her visit to the city starts uneventfully enough, on a subway ride with Uncle Henry and Aunt Em. But then there is a lurch - and not just your ordinary everyday sort of lurch. The subway train she's riding suddenly shoots forward, the track and tunnel walls seem to smooth out, then fall away, and before she knows it, Dorothy feels as if she is plummeting, faster and faster... until she is deposited, quite nicely thank you, in a marvelous landscape of flowers, meadows, lawns, and trees. So begins Robert Gilmore's latest physics fantasy. In the tradition of his bestselling Alice in Quantumland, a recasting of Lewis Carroll's Alice in the service of teaching quantum mechanics, The Wizard of Quarks takes L. Frank Baum's classic tale of a little girl from Kansas and transforms it into a description of the practically indescribable world of subatomic particles. Dorothy's encounters with the Witch of Mass, the Witch of Charge, the Witch of Color, and the Weak Witch will help readers grasp the maddeningly elusive concepts that support the foundations of modern physics. Whether he is describing Planck's constant, superposition, tunneling, or quarks and leptons, Gilmore is a master at making the difficult concepts of subatomic particles comprehensible and entertaining.

Sommaire

    • The Wonder World
    • The Witch of Mass
    • The Observant Scarecrow
    • The Tin Geek
    • The Confident Lion
    • The Atomic Garden
    • The Seed at the Heart of the World
    • The Kingdom of Cern
    • The Field of the Weave of Light
    • The Wizard of Quarks
    • The Plaza of the Immortals
    • A Weak Old Woman
    • The Higgs of the Masskervilles
    • Through the Great Experimental Desert.

Caractéristiques

  • Date de parution
    24/02/2001
  • Editeur
  • ISBN
    0-387-95071-0
  • EAN
    9780387950716
  • Présentation
    Relié
  • Nb. de pages
    202 pages
  • Poids
    0.53 Kg
  • Dimensions
    16,3 cm × 24,3 cm × 2,2 cm

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Biographie de Robert Gilmore

ROBERT GILMORE is a Visiting Research Fellow, with a special focus on the public understanding of science, at Bristol University in England. He bas also worked in particle physics at Brookhaven, Stanford, and CERN, Geneva. His previous books are Alice in Quantumland and Scrooges Cryptic Carol.

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