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Books | American University in Dubai | American University in Dubai | Main Collection | QC 24.5 .A53 2010 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 604125 |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [287]-297) and index.
Monks and astronomers -- The experiment that detects nothing -- Little neutral ones -- The Paranal light quartet -- Fire, rock, and ice -- Three thousand eyes in the Karoo -- Antimatter over Antarctica -- Einstein meets quantum physics at the South Pole -- The heart of the matter -- Whispers from other universes -- Appendix I. The standard model of particle physics -- Appendix II. From the Big Bang to now : the standard model of cosmology.
Ananthaswamy weaves together stories about the people and places at the heart of today's research in physics, while beautifully explaining the problems that scientists are trying to solve. In so doing, he provides a unique portrait of the universe and our quest to understand it.
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