Hidden worlds : hunting for quarks in ordinary matter /

"Though quarks that make science headlines are typically laboratory creations generated under extreme conditions, most quarks occur naturally. They reside in the protons and neutrons that make up almost all of the universe's known matter ... Smith explains what these quarks are, how they a...

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التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
المؤلف الرئيسي: Smith, Timothy Paul, 1960- (مؤلف)
التنسيق: Licensed eBooks
اللغة:الإنجليزية
منشور في: Princeton : Princeton University Press [2003]
الوصول للمادة أونلاين:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctv39x8cr
الوصف
الملخص:"Though quarks that make science headlines are typically laboratory creations generated under extreme conditions, most quarks occur naturally. They reside in the protons and neutrons that make up almost all of the universe's known matter ... Smith explains what these quarks are, how they act, and why physicists believe in them sight unseen."--Jacket
وصف المادة:Includes index.
وصف مادي:1 online resource : illustrations
ردمك:9780691187242
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0691057737
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