Physics
epub |eng | | Author:Ziauddin Sardar

The Conditions of Stability In the 1950s and 60s, three Russian scientists, Andrei Kolmogorov, Vladimir Arnold and Jurgen Moser, picked up Poincaré’s work. They discovered that stability in a three-body ...
( Category: Educational & Nonfiction March 31,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:McCray, W. Patrick

CHAPTER 6 California Dreaming As I’ve said many times, the future is here. It’s just not very evenly distributed. —William Gibson, science fiction author, interview on National Public Radio, November ...
( Category: Astrophysics & Space Science March 27,2016 )
epub, azw3, mobi |eng | 2012-07-17 | Author:George Gamow [Gamow, George]

In order to achieve the transformation, deuterium must be subjected to a temperature of a hundred million degrees. The first successful nuclear-fusion device was the hydrogen bomb, in which the ...
( Category: Relativity March 19,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:Martin Rees [Rees, Martin]

THE TUNING OF THE INITIAL EXPANSION Ω may not be exactly one, but it is now at least 0.3. At first sight, this may not seem to indicate fine tuning. ...
( Category: Astronomy March 13,2016 )
epub |eng | 2013-03-10 | Author:Peter Galison

Figure 4.4 Hunting the Ether. With a remarkable series of experiments, Albert Michelson sought to measure the earth’s motion through the elusive ether. In the 1881 device shown here, he ...
( Category: Relativity March 11,2016 )
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Marty Jopson [Jopson, Marty]

Scaly wool fibres and smoother alternatives We now turn to the dried keratin scales found on the surface of the wool fibres. All hair, wool and fur fibres have a ...
( Category: Physics March 11,2016 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-02-29 | Author:Mitchell Begelman

18 The Shepherd Serendipity—finding important things by chance—has always been one of the astronomer’s best friends. By definition it is unpredictable, and its impact is often most poignant when conditions ...
( Category: Physics March 9,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:Francesca Biagini & Massimo Campanino

If we indicate with the probability that Poisson process at time t is in the state s, then we have where is the initial distribution. It follows that for every ...
( Category: Probability & Statistics March 8,2016 )
epub |eng | 2011-03-05 | Author:Roald Hoffmann & Iain Boyd Whyte

Why the Sublime Is a Religious Concept There is another, possibly deeper reason why the sublime matters to a contemporary sense of pictures, and why it is so important—and so ...
( Category: Linguistics March 6,2016 )
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2002-10-03 | Author:Stephen Webb [Webb, Stephen]

FIGURE 44: The planetary nebula NGC 7027. Objects like this produce much of the carbon we observe in the Universe. The main producers of cosmic carbon are planetary nebulae, which ...
( Category: Astronomy March 6,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-02-04 | Author:Newton, Isaac, Sir

CASE 5. Since, therefore, any part GHI of the fluid is enclosed in the remaining fluid as if in a vessel and is pressed equally on all sides, while its ...
( Category: Movements February 28,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:Tom Whyntie

By now accelerators were being built elsewhere, notably at the “Conseil Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire” – CERN. Founded by twelve European governments in 1954, its aim was to harness ...
( Category: Waves & Wave Mechanics February 17,2016 )
epub |eng | 2015-11-02 | Author:Thomas Levenson

* * * *1 To call something a fundamental particle is to say that it is a chunk of reality that cannot be broken up into any smaller components. Another ...
( Category: Relativity February 15,2016 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-11-29 | Author:Frank Close

’t Hooft looked at the case when all particles were massless. Many among the cognoscenti believed the massless Yang-Mills theory to be renormalizable, but ’t Hooft felt that no one ...
( Category: Quantum Theory February 12,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-01-11 | Author:Martin Meisel

In the same manner as for the observant traveller, the strange wildness of nature is so attractive in physical nature—thus, and for the same reason, every soul capable of enthusiasm ...
( Category: European February 12,2016 )