History & Philosophy
azw3, mobi, epub |eng | 2006-08-15 | Author:Robert Oerter

The Strong, the Weak, and the Strange By 1950, physicists had come to realize that they needed yet another classification to deal with the nuclear forces. On the one hand, ...
( Category: Nuclear Physics September 26,2014 )
azw3, epub, mobi |eng | 2009-10-15 | Author:Manjit Kumar

Zurich lay well outside the golden quantum triangle of Copenhagen, Göttingen and Munich. As the new physics of wave mechanics spread like wildfire through Europe's physics community in the spring ...
( Category: Quantum Theory September 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Edward Dolnick

Spectators out for a day’s entertainment might attend a puppet show or a hanging or, perhaps, a bear-baiting. Dogs attacked a chained bear, who flailed at his attackers. Bull-baiting was ...
( Category: Scientists September 22,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Richard Rhodes

The target sphere could be simply welded to the muzzle of a cannon; then the cylinder, which might weigh about a hundred pounds, could be fired up the barrel like ...
( Category: Nuclear September 22,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2008-03-01 | Author:Simon Levay [Levay, Simon]

NUCLEAR PHYSICS: Meltdown THE TOMBSTONE OF Richard Leroy McKinley looks no different from hundreds of others in Section 31 of Arlington National Cemetery. It’s a plain stone slab, decorated with ...
( Category: Essays & Commentary September 22,2014 )
azw3 |eng | 2009-02-01 | Author:David Dobbs

4 Even as he was composing his Chile notes, Darwin was turning his mind west. The Beagle, having finished its laborious survey of the South American coast, was making ready ...
( Category: Marine Life September 22,2014 )
azw3, mobi, epub |eng | 2008-01-01 | Author:David Deutsch

11 The Multiverse The idea of a ‘doppelgänger’ (a ‘double’ of a person) is a frequent theme of science fiction. For instance, the classic television series Star Trek featured several ...
( Category: History & Philosophy September 17,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-04-08 | Author:Alexander, Amir [Alexander, Amir]

TWO DREAMS OF MODERNITY By the 1670s the war over the infinitely small had ended. With Angeli at long last silenced, and all the Jesuits’ rivals driven underground or melting ...
( Category: History September 16,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-09-15 | Author:Stone, A. Douglas

FIGURE 20.1. Albert Einstein and Niels Bohr in discussion, circa 1925–30. Photograph by Paul Ehren fest, courtesy AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives. So this was the revolutionary step that Einstein, ...
( Category: Quantum Theory September 16,2014 )
azw3 |eng | 2010-11-15 | Author:Bill Bryson

LEGACIES Bragg dedicated his last years to restoring the RI, which had gone through a fallow period, to the glory days of Faraday or indeed his own father. Apart from ...
( Category: England September 15,2014 )
azw3, epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2009-04-02 | Author:Ben Goldacre

Be Careful What You Ask For In Japan on November 11, 1971, researchers from the Agency of Science and Technology conducted an experiment to study landslides. They soaked the side ...
( Category: Drug Dependency September 15,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-09-09 | Author:Sam Harris [Harris, Sam]

DZOGCHEN: TAKING THE GOAL AS THE PATH Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche lived in a hermitage on the southern slope of Shivapuri Mountain, overlooking the Kathmandu Valley. He spent more than twenty ...
( Category: Sociology September 15,2014 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2012-09-14 | Author:William Gurstelle

Building the Sublimator Gather all of your materials and tools. If you’ve made the spud gun, you’re already familiar with how to work with PVC to make a backyard ballistic ...
( Category: Mechanics September 15,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-06-04 | Author:Marciano, John Bemelmans

Europe Divided and United As the 1867 Exposition Universelle entered its final month, the International Conference on Geodesy got under way in Berlin. It was part of the largest cooperative, ...
( Category: Measurement September 5,2014 )
epub |eng | 2007-12-17 | Author:Kai Bird

CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT “He Couldn’t Understand Why He Did It” He told me that his nerve just gave way at that moment. . . . He has this tendency when things ...
( Category: United States September 1,2014 )