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From Quarks to the Cosmos: Tools of Discovery (Scientific American Library, No 28)
From Quarks to the Cosmos Tools of Discovery - Scientific American Library, No 28 Author:Leon M. Lederman, David N. Schramm Modern scientists are constructing a great intellectual edifice -nothing less than a complete understanding of the world- connecting the immense scale of the universe to the unimaginably tiny microworld inside the atom. 'From Quarks to the Cosmos: Tools of Discovery' follows this dramatic merger of particle physics and cosmology, showing how ex... more »periments and theoretical predictions developed in one area provide clues and solutions to problems in the other - and how these converging fields may soon produce a "theory of everything".
Leon Lederman recipient of the 1988 Noble Prize in physics, and David Schramm, one of America's leading cosmologists, describe the development of current views of the nature of space, time, matter, and fundamental forces, and explore what these views reveal about the formation of the universe. They replay the brilliant experiments that disclosed the microscopic world of neutrons, protons, leptons, and quarks, and examine the observations that defined the origin and evolution of stars and galaxies. These worlds of the very small and the very large unite in elementary particle accelerators, where the authors and their colleagues study the earliest moments of the cosmos. The authors show how new instruments have lead to new ideas, and they survey the tools being developed for the 1990's.« less