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Sto caricando le informazioni... The Second Creation: Makers of the Revolution in Twentieth-Century Physics (originale 1986; edizione 1987)di Robert P. ; Mann Crease, Charles C. (Autore)
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. Excellent historical account of the development of particle physics up to the 1990s, not including the discovery of the top quark (1995) but discussing grand unified theories, super-symmetry, and string theory. ( ) Minireview: Crease and Mann's history of the development of relativity, quantum physics, quantum field theory and the Standard Model admirably combines engrossing prose with discussion of the physics that, while non-technical, is still thorough. They are helped by dozens of interviews with leading physicists, and include impressive notes with many references to original papers. There were some problems: the Higgs boson, perhaps the central issue of the Standard Model for the last couple of decades, is mentioned only in passing; the ten-year update from 1985 to 1995 seems haphazard in spots; and the optimistic discussion of string theory (while prescient in some ways) now seems hopelessly dated. But in the scale of the work as a whole, I found these relatively minor issues. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
The Second Creation is a dramatic--and human--chronicle of scientific investigators at the last frontier of knowledge. Robert Crease and Charles Mann take the reader on a fascinating journey in search of "unification" (a description of how matter behaves that can apply equally to everything) with brilliant scientists such as Niels Bohr, Max Planck, Albert Einstein, Erwin Schrödinger, Richard Feynman, Murray Gell-Mann, Sheldon Glashow, Steven Weinberg, and many others. They provide the definitive and highly entertaining story of the development of modern physics, and the human story of the physicists who set out to find the "theory of everything." The Second Creation tells the story of some of the most talented and idiosyncratic people in the world--many times in their own words. Crease and Mann conducted hundreds of interviews to capture the thinking and the personalities as well as the science. The authors make this complex subject matter clear and absorbing. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche
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