The Nature of the Universe. Atoms. Nucleus. The Forces of Nature. Nuclear Particles and the Eightfold Way. Quarks. Quantum Chromodynamics. The Electroweak Force. From Charm to Top. The LEP Era. Matter and Antimatter. Neutrinos. Guts, Susy, and Higgs. The Early Universe.
Frank Close
“… it is correspondingly rewarding to readers who work their way
through it. Using diagrams, analogies, and simplified versions of
complicated mathematics, the author largely follows the historical
order of discovery. … Widely accepted information is explained in
terms of widely accepted concepts, and the reader is assured that
it comes with no strings attached. … Summing up: Highly recommended
.”
— D. Park, emeritus, Williams College, in Choice, Vol. 44, No. 11,
July 2007 "There seems little doubt that this version of The New
Cosmic Onion will prove just as popular as the 1983 edition and
encourage many of today’s students to apply for physics
undergraduate courses." – G. Miller, St. Paul’s School, in
Contemporary Physics, November 2007". . . you get a text which is
lucid, engaging and accurate . . . Overall what one gets with this
text is an excellent accessible introduction to particle physics
and quantumchromodynamics (QCD) which will serve both the
pre-university and university markets." – Gren Ireson, Loughborough
University, in Physical Science Educational Review, 2007, Vol. 8,
No. 1“New accelerators are being built that will show how the seeds
of matter were created when our universe was less than a billionth
of a second old. The discoveries in this century promise to be no
less revolutionary than in the last . . . The New Cosmic Onion will
provide the explanations that students, opinion formers and
intelligent citizens need if they are to understand how science has
come to this frontier, and where we think it is headed in the
immediate future.”
from the Foreword
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