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Ghost Particle
The fascinating story of science in pursuit of the ghostly, ubiquitous subatomic particle—the neutrino. Isaac Asimov is said to have observed of the neutrino: “The only reason scientists suggested its existence was their need to make calculations come out even. And yet the nothing-particle was not a nothing at all.” In fact, as one of the most enigmatic and most populous particles in the universe—about 100 trillion are flying through you every second—the neutrino may hold the clues to some of our deepest cosmic mysteries. In Ghost Particle, Alan Chodos and James Riordon recount the dramatic history of the neutrino—from the initial suggestion that the particle was merely a despera...
Disrupting Science
"Drawing extensively from archival sources and in-depth interviews, Kelly Moore examines the features of American science that made it an attractive target for protesters in the early cold war and Vietnam eras, including scientists' work in military research and activities perceived as environmentally harmful. She describes the intellectual traditions that protesters drew from - liberalism, moral individualism, and the New Left - and traces the rise and influence of scientist-led protest organizations such as Science for the People and the Union of Concerned Scientists. Moore shows how scientist protest activities disrupted basic assumptions about science and the ways scientific knowledge should be produced, and recast scientists' relationships to political and military institutions."--Jacket.
Science, Money, and Politics
Greenberg explores how scientific research is funded in the United States, including why the political process distributes the funds the way it does and how it can be corrupted by special interests in academia, business, and political machines.
New War Technologies and International Law
This book analyses how existing international law limits the use of means of warfare utilising the properties of nanomaterials.
Neutrino Mass, Dark Matter, Gravitational Waves, Monopole Condensation, and Light Cone Quantization
The International Conference, Orbis Scientiae 1996, focused on the topics: The Neutrino Mass, Light Cone Quantization, Monopole Condensation, Dark Matter, and Gravitational Waves which we have adopted as the title of these proceedings. Was there any exciting news at the conference? Maybe, it depends on who answers the question. There was an almost unanimous agreement on the overall success of the conference as was evidenced by the fact that in the after-dinner remarks by one of us (BNK) the suggestion of organizing the conference on a biannual basis was presented but not accepted: the participants wanted the continuation of the tradition to convene annually. We shall, of course, comply. The ...
China and Albert Einstein
This is the first extensive study in English or Chinese of China's reception of the celebrated physicist and his theory of relativity. In a series of biographical studies of Chinese physicists, Hu describes the Chinese assimilation of relativity and explains how Chinese physicists offered arguments and theories of their own. Hu's account concludes with the troubling story of the fate of foreign ideas such as Einstein's in the Chinese Cultural Revolution (1966-1976), when the theory of relativity was denigrated along with Einstein's ideas on democracy and world peace.
A Passion for Discovery
This fascinating book assembles human stories about physicists and mathematicians. Remarkably, these stories cluster around some general themes having to do with the interaction between scientists, and with the impact of historic events ? such as the advent of fascism and communism in the twentieth century ? on scientists' behavior. Briefly, but lucidly, some of the beautiful science that brought these scientists together in the first place is explained.Author's webpage: http: //freund9.googlepages.com/peterfreundwritings
Quantum Chromodynamics - Proceedings Of The Fifth Workshop
Contents: Basic Concepts and Consequences of Stochastic Vacuum Model (H G Dosch)Variational Approximations for Correlation Functions in Quantum Field Theories (C Martin)SU(2) Gauge Theory in Covariant (Maximal) Abelian Gauges (M Schaden)The Vacuum Wave Function in Supersymmetric Matrix Theory (C M Sommerfield)HERA Results on Elastic Hadronic and Sub-Hadronic Diffraction (G Knies)Deriving Effective Transport Equations for Non-Abelian Plasmas (D F Litim)Aspects of Non-Commutativity in ADS/CFT (A Jevicki)Thermal Field Theory in Equilibrium (J O Andersen)Puzzling Aspects of Hot Quantum Fields (T Grandou)DIS Results from HERA (C M Ginsburg)Electroproduction of Vector Mesons (T Teubner)New Developments in Cosmology (J W Moffat)Heavy-Light Physics from Lattice NRQCD (T Onogi)Non-Relativistic Effective Theory for Perturbative Heavy Quark-Antiquark Systems (A H Hoang)The Spin Dependence of Swift Proton Collisions (N H Buttimore)Numerical Investigation of Domain-Wall QCD on CP-PACS (S Aoki)When is It Possible to Use Perturbation Technique in Field Theory? (T N Truong)and other papers Readership: Researchers in high energy physics. Keywords:
International Europhysics Conference on High Energy Physics
The 1997 International Europhysics Conference on High Energy Physics was held at the campus of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and at the Jerusalem Renaissance Hotel, from August 19th to August 25th, 1997. This was the first time that the European Physical Society had its High Energy Physics Conference outside the boundary of Europe. A total of 550 physicists participated in the conference with a total of 250 presentations in the parallel sessions and 26 presentations in the plenary sessions. The Board of the of the High Energy and Particle Physics division (HEPP) of the EPS acted as the Scientific Organizing Committee. The Board acknowl edges the help of the International Advisory Committee as well as that of the Local Organizing Committee. The conference was co-organized by the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and by the Weizmann Institute of Science, with important help by physi cists from the Israeli Institute of Technology (Technion) and the Tel Aviv University.
