Particle Accelerators, Colliders, and the Story of High Energy Physics
Charming the Cosmic Snake
The Nordic mythological Cosmic Serpent, Ouroboros, is said to be coiled in the depths of the sea, surrounding the Earth with its tail in its mouth. In physics, this snake is a metaphor for the Universe, where the head, symbolizing the largest entity - the Cosmos - is one with the tail, symbolizing the smallest - the fundamental particle. Particle accelerators, colliders and detectors are built by physicists and engineers to uncover the nature of the Universe while discovering its building blocks. Charming the Cosmic Snake takes the readers through the science behind these experimental machines: the physics principles that each stage of the de…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-3-642-22063-0
- EAN: 9783642220630
- Produktnummer: 11340453
- Verlag: Springer-Verlag GmbH
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
- Seitenangabe: 222 S.
- Masse: H24.1 cm x B16.0 cm x D1.7 cm 524 g
- Abbildungen: Book; 104 schwarz-weiße Abbildungen, 5 schwarz-weiße Tabellen
- Gewicht: 524
Über den Autor
Raghavan Jayakumar is an accelerator scientist who was involved in the Superconducting Supercollider project that was cancelled by the the US congress in 1993.
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