The matter of everything : twelve experiments that changed our world
"In The Matter of Everything, accelerator physicist Suzie Sheehy introduces us to the people who, through a combination of genius, persistence and luck, staged the ground-breaking experiments of the twentieth century that changed the course of history. From the serendipitous discovery of X-rays...
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| Médium: | Kniha |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
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London ; Oxford ; New York ; New Delhi ; Sydney :
Bloomsbury Publishing,
2022
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| Žánr/forma: | populárně-naučné publikace |
| ISBN: | 978-1-5266-1895-5 978-1-5266-1896-2 978-1-5266-1898-6 978-1-5266-4710-8 |
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- Part 1. Dismantling classical physics
- Cathode ray tube: X-rays and the electron
- The gold foil experiment: the structure of the atom
- The photoelectric effect: the light quantum
- Part 2. Matter beyond atoms
- Cloud chambers: cosmic rays and a shower of new particles
- The first particle accelerators: splitting the atom
- Cyclotron: artificial production of radioactivity
- Synchrotron radiation: an unexpected light emerges
- Part 3. The standard model and beyond
- Particle physics goes large: the strange resonances
- Mega-detectors: finding the elusive neutrino
- Linear accelerators: the discovery of quarks
- The tevatron: a third generation of matter
- The Large Hadron Collider: the Higgs Boson and beyond
- Future experiments