F. E Close
1) The void
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Series
Language
English
Description
"What remains when you take all the matter away? Can empty space--a void--exist? Frank Close explores the science and the history of the elusive void : from Aristotle, who insisted that the vacuum was impossible, to our very latest discoveries and why they can tell us extraordinary things about the cosmos."--P. [4] of cover.
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Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
This thought-provoking work by a physicist and popular science writer explores the origins of asymmetry from the molecular level to that of the universe at large. Frank Close takes the readers on a tour of asymmetry that ranges from the development of human embryos to the mysterious Higgs boson, or "God particle," and ongoing research at Switzerland's CERN laboratory.
Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
"Speculation is rife that by 2012 the elusive Higgs boson will be found at the Large Hadron Collider. If found, the Higgs boson would help explain why everything has mass. But there's more at stake-what we're really testing is our capacity to make the universe reasonable. Our best understanding of physics is predicated on something known as quantum field theory. Unfortunately, in its raw form, it doesn't make sense-its outputs are physically impossible...
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
On August 21st, over one hundred million people will gather across the USA to witness the most-watched total solar eclipse in history. Eclipse: Journeys to the Dark Side of the Moon, by popular science author Frank Close, describes the spellbinding allure of this beautiful natural phenomenon. The book explains why eclipses happen, reveals their role in history, literature and myth, and introduces us to eclipse chasers, who travel with ecstatic fervor...
Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"On July 4, 2012, scientists at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN gathered to make a momentous announcement: after nearly a half century of speculation and work, the Higgs boson had been found, and the mystery of mass solved. Not far offstage was the man for whom the particle had been named: Peter Higgs. The Higgs boson is an anomaly. No other basic particle of physics is named after a person. And in a point of almost supreme irony, it is named after...
Author
Publisher
Basic Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Bruno Pontecorvo dedicated his career to hunting for the Higgs boson of his day-- the neutrino, a nearly massless particle considered essential to the process of nuclear fission. His work on the Manhattan project under Enrico Fermi confirmed his reputation as a brilliant physicist and helped usher in the nuclear age. He should have won a Nobel Prize, but late in the summer of 1950 he vanished. At the height of the Cold War, Pontecorvo had disappeared...
