Image and logic : a material culture of microphysics
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Image and logic : a material culture of microphysics
University of Chicago Press, 1997
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- : pbk
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Image & logic
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Bibliography: p. 849-902
Includes index
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内容説明
This study engages with the impact of modern technology on experimental physicists. It reveals how the ever-increasing scale and complexity of apparatus has distanced physicists from the very science which drew them into experimenting, and has fragmented microphysics into different technical traditions. At the beginning of this century, physics was usually done by a lone researcher who put together experimental apparatus on a benchtop. Now experiments are frequently larger than a city block, and experimental physicists lead very different lives - programming computers, working with industry, co-ordinating vast teams of scientists and engineers, and playing politics. The author describes how, as a result of these changes, the necessity for teamwork in operating multimillion-dollar machines has created dynamic "trading zones", where instrument makers, theorists and experimentalists meet, share knowledge, and co-ordinate the extraordinarily diverse pieces of the culture of modern microphysics - work, machines, evidence and argument.
目次
List of Figures Preface 1: Introduction: Image and Logic 2: Cloud Chambers: The Peculiar Genius of British Physics 3: Nuclear Emulsions: The Anxiety of the Experimenter 4: Laboratory War: Radar Philosophy and the Los Alamos Man 5: Bubble Chambers: Factories of Physics 6: The Electronic Image: Iconoclasm and the New Icons 7: Time Projection Chambers: An Image Falling through Space 8: Monte Carlo Simulations: Artificial Reality 9: The Trading Zone: Coordinating Action and Belief Abbreviations for Archival Sources Bibliography Index
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