Physics
epub |eng | 2011-01-24 | Author:Brian Greene [Greene, Brian]

Mysteries and Multiverses: Can a multiverse provide explanatory power of which we’d otherwise be deprived? No doubt you’ve noticed that even the most sanguine projections suggest that predictions emerging from ...
( Category: Quantum Theory March 27,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Simon Singh [Simon Singh ]

From the Cosmic to the Atomic In order for the Big Bang model to be accepted, there was one seemingly innocuous question that could not be ignored: why are some ...
( Category: Relativity March 27,2014 )
epub |eng | 2012-09-03 | Author:Rupert Sheldrake [Sheldrake, Rupert]

Currently, in the Connectome Project researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and elsewhere are trying to map some of the trillions of connections between nerve cells in mammalian brains, ...
( Category: Science & Religion March 27,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-09-15 | Author:Chris Gainor [Gainor, Chris]

Breaking the Sound Barrier Humans, not just animals, were also being subjected to new speeds and acceleration forces in the first decade after the war, sometimes with similarly fatal results. ...
( Category: Aircraft Design & Construction March 27,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-03-26 | Author:A. S. Kompaneyets

We shall verify this: because and are, of course, commutative. Let us add to the right-hand side of the last equality, and subtract from it the combinations and ; we ...
( Category: Mathematical Physics March 27,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-06-13 | Author:Dave Goldberg

LIFE NEAR THE EVENT HORIZON All of the gravitational effects we’ve seen so far, from Antworld to earth to the gravitational lensing effects of the sun, are small potatoes in ...
( Category: Quantum Theory March 27,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-06-26 | Author:Hook, J. R., Hall, H. E. & H. E. Hall [Hook, J. R., Hall, H. E. & Hall, H. E.]

Fig. 8.7 Magnetization of an antiferromagnet in a direction perpendicular to the sublattice spontaneous magnetizations can be achieved by slight tilting of the atomic moments as shown first order in ...
( Category: Solid-State Physics March 27,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-06-03 | Author:Mandl, Franz, Shaw, Graham & Graham Shaw [Mandl, Franz, Shaw, Graham & Shaw, Graham]

where, for example, r3 means that the third quark is in an r state etc. The coefficients αi(i = 1, 2, …, 6) are constants whose values are restricted by ...
( Category: Quantum Theory March 27,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-06-15 | Author:Michael Fayer [Fayer, Michael]

Two hydrogen atoms, call them a and b, do not interact with each other when they are very far apart. When they are separated by a large distance, the electron ...
( Category: Quantum Theory March 27,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-05-04 | Author:John Gribbin [Gribbin, John]

SUPERCONDUCTORS Like semiconductors, superconductors have a logical name. A superconductor is a material that conducts electricity without any apparent resistance at all. This is as close as we are ever ...
( Category: Quantum Theory March 27,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-11-12 | Author:Carroll, Sean [Carroll, Sean]

What comes out So you’ve made a Higgs boson! Congratulations. Now comes the tricky part: How are you ever going to know? Heavy particles tend to decay, and the Higgs ...
( Category: Particle Physics March 27,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-06-03 | Author:Mandl, Franz

6.1 ATOMIC STRUCTURE In section 4.4.1 we specified the states of an atomic electron by atomic orbitals and described the states of a Z-electron atom in terms of configurations (n1l1)(n2l2)… ...
( Category: Quantum Theory March 27,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-09-16 | Author:Ashcroft, Frances [Ashcroft, Frances]

Raising the Barriers It is vital that only a single sperm fertilizes an egg because if multiple sperm do so the resulting cell fails to develop normally. Thus the egg ...
( Category: Electricity March 27,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-04-01 | Author:Kimberly K. Arcand [Arcand, Kimberly K.]

( Category: Astrophysics & Space Science March 27,2014 )
epub |eng | 2006-03-26 | Author:John Gribbin

7 Where Did the Chemical Elements Come from? Although Alfred Russel Wallace, writing more than a hundred years ago, had no idea of the true extent and complexity of the ...
( Category: Astrophysics & Space Science March 27,2014 )