The Perfect Wave: With Neutrinos at the Boundary of Space and Time

Author:   Heinrich Päs
Publisher:   Harvard University Press
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9780674725010


Pages:   312
Publication Date:   10 February 2014
Format:   Hardback
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The Perfect Wave: With Neutrinos at the Boundary of Space and Time


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Almost weightless and able to pass through the densest materials with ease, neutrinos seem to defy the laws of nature. But these mysterious particles may hold the key to our deepest questions about the universe, says physicist Heinrich Päs. In The Perfect Wave, Päs serves as our fluent, deeply knowledgeable guide to a particle world that tests the boundaries of space, time, and human knowledge. The existence of the neutrino was first proposed in 1930, but decades passed before one was detected. Päs animates the philosophical and scientific developments that led to and have followed from this seminal discovery, ranging from familiar topics of relativity and quantum mechanics to more speculative theories about dark energy and supersymmetry. Many cutting-edge topics in neutrino research--conjectures about the origin of matter, extra-dimensional spacetime, and the possibility of time travel--remain unproven. But Päs describes the ambitious projects under way that may confirm them, including accelerator experiments at CERN and Fermilab, huge subterranean telescopes designed to detect high-energy neutrino radiation, and the Planck space observatory scheduled to investigate the role of neutrinos in cosmic evolution. As Päs's history of the neutrino illustrates, what is now established fact often sounded wildly implausible and unnatural when first proposed. The radical side of physics is both an exciting and an essential part of scientific progress, and The Perfect Wave renders it accessible to the interested reader.

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Author:   Heinrich Päs
Publisher:   Harvard University Press
Imprint:   Harvard University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 14.00cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 21.00cm
Weight:   0.508kg
ISBN:  

9780674725010


ISBN 10:   0674725018
Pages:   312
Publication Date:   10 February 2014
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Language:   German

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Entertaining and evocative, Pas has written a breezy, readable account of particle physics, especially neutrino physics, in a lucid, lively narrative.--Sandip Pakvasa, Professor of Physics and Astronomy, University of Hawaii at Manoa


Entertaining and evocative, Pas has written a breezy, readable account of particle physics, especially neutrino physics, in a lucid, lively narrative.--Sandip Pakvasa, Professor Of Physics And Astronomy, University Of Hawaii At Manoa


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Heinrich Päs is Professor of Theoretical Particle Physics at Technische Universität Dortmund, Germany.

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