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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| Formaat: | Licensed eBooks |
| Taal: | Engels |
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Princeton :
Princeton University Press
[2003]
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| Online toegang: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctv39x8cr |
Inhoudsopgave:
- Hidden worlds: the search for quarks in ordinary matter
- The rise and fall (for the right reasons) and rise again of the quark hypothesis
- The players and the stage
- The nature of the evidence
- Measuring a rainbow
- Particle taxonomy and quark soup
- The shape of things
- Three quarks plus
- Digging a little deeper
- A new age of exploration within the hidden world.