The matter of everything : how curiosity, physics, and improbable experiments changed the world
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The matter of everything : how curiosity, physics, and improbable experiments changed the world
Alfred A. Knopf, 2023, c2022
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Contents of Works
- Introduction
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Acknowledgements
- Notes
- Index