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  title info:
    non sort: A
    title: Universe of Atoms, An Atom in the Universe
  name:
    name part: Silverman, Mark P.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: xxu
    date issued: 2002
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: X, 418 p. online resource.
  abstract: Approximately 10 years have passed since the publication of And Yet 1 It Moves: Strange Systems and Subtle Questions in Physics. During this time, the book has done very well, being received favorably by both readers and reviewers. The exhaustion of the last printing has given me the opportunity to make revisions. The present volume, updated and expanded by three new chapters containing a total of 17 additional essays on a wide range of questions that I have explored in quantum mechanics, nuclear physics, thermodynamics, general relativity, and astrophysics, has been given a new title to re?ect the broad thematic coverage and a new publisher (Springer-Verlag). The Introduction (The Fire Within) that follows, based on the preface to the original edition, explains fully the purpose and content of this book. I wish to note brie?y here, however, that time and the advance of physics have not dulled the scienti?c relevance of any of the essays. This book, like its predecessor, is not intended to be a popularization, a textbook, or a monograph of any ?eld of physics. Rather, it is a p- sonal account of the scienti?c underpinnings, motivations, lessons, and rami?cations of some of the many fundamental physical problems that have engaged me throughout my career to the present. These are essays that anyone with an interest in contemporary physics can read, although it is certainly the case that the more serious the interest, the more meaningful will be the essays.
  table of contents: Introduction: The Fire Within -- The Wirbelrohr’s Roar -- Musical Bottles, Flying Balloons, and Hot Stoves: The Uncommon Physics of Common Things -- The Unimaginably Strange Behavior of Free Electrons -- Quantum Beats and Giant Atoms -- And Yet It Moves: Exotic Atoms and the Invariance of Charge -- Reflections on Light -- Two Worlds, Large and Small: Earth and Atom -- Computers, Coins, and Quanta: Unexpected Outcomes of Random Events -- A Universe of Atoms: Symmetry, Unity, Gravity, and the Problem of “Missing Mass” -- Science and Wonder.
  note: by Mark P. Silverman.
  subject:
    topic: Physics
  subject:
    topic: Quantum physics
  subject:
    topic: Quantum computers
  subject:
    topic: Spintronics
  subject:
    topic: Physics
  subject:
    topic: Quantum Physics
  subject:
    topic: Quantum Information Technology, Spintronics
  classification: QC173.96-174.52
  classification: 530.12
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      title: Springer eBooks
  identifier: 9780387227610
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/b98902
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