Автор: Close, Frank Название: Nothing: A Very Short Introduction ISBN: 0199225869 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780199225866 Издательство: Oxford Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 1582.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: What is `nothing`? What remains when you take all the matter away? Can empty space - a void - exist? This Very Short Introduction explores the science and history of the elusive void: from Aristotle`s theories to black holes and quantum particles, and why the latest discoveries about the vacuum tell us extraordinary things about the cosmos.
Описание: 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 infinite percentages when they should be something simpler, like the number 1. The kind of physics that the Higgs boson represents seeks to "renormalize" field theory, forcing equations to provide answers that match what we see in the real world.The Infinity Puzzle is the story of a wild idea on the road to acceptance. Only Close can tell it.
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Автор: Weber Frank Название: Lying Close ISBN: 1649702078 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781649702074 Издательство: Gazelle Book Services Рейтинг: Цена: 4073.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: A hunting accident, a rural home break in, and the disappearance of a teen, all occur in a 30 mile stretch of rural Minnesota. Jon Frederick realizes they are all symptoms of a larger problem. Lying Close is a thrilling mystery, with a forbidden love affair. This is Book 4 in the Jon Frederick series, but all can be read as stand alone mystery/thrillers.
Автор: Close Frank Название: Nuclear Physics: A Very Short Introduction ISBN: 0198718632 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780198718635 Издательство: Oxford Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 1582.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: In this Very Short Introduction Frank Close describes the historical development of nuclear physics, our understanding of the nucleus, how nuclei form, and the applications of the field in medicine. Exploring key concepts, Frank Close shows how nuclear physics brings the physics of the stars to Earth.
Автор: Close Frank Название: Too Hot to Handle: The Race for Cold Fusion ISBN: 0691635013 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780691635019 Издательство: Wiley Рейтинг: Цена: 28842.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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Frank Close, a leading physicist and talented popular science writer, reveals the true story of the cold fusion controversy--a story ignored until now in spite of the glare of publicity surrounding Martin Fleischmann and Stanley Pons. On March 23, 1989, these two Utah scientists held an astonishing press conference, maintaining that they had succeeded, working in secret, in harnessing atomic fusion. What was the basis for their claims to have achieved cold fusion in a test tube in a basement laboratory, while other scientists--using magnets as big as houses and temperatures hotter than those in the center of the sun--were failing to produce as much power as they were using? Why did Fleischmann and Pons proclaim their discovery at a news conference, when first announcements of scientific results are almost always made within the scientific community? Why did the full-blown media event inspired by their initial report cause governments to reorient their research programs in hopes of cornering the new technology? And why did some scientists recklessly abandon their traditional painstaking methods in haste to be first to prove or discredit the experiment? Acquainted at first hand with investigations of cold fusion on two continents, Close is uniquely qualified to probe the motivations behind Fleischmann's and Pons's startling assertions and to explore the intellectual and political turmoil that surrounded the cold fusion debate.
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Автор: Close Frank Название: Half Life ISBN: 1780747462 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781780747460 Издательство: TBS/GBS Рейтинг: Цена: 6732.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: A true-life tale of nuclear secrets, Soviet spies and MI5