The Quantum Quark

ISBN: 9780521089838

出版社: Cambridge University Press

出版年: 2008-11

页数: 480

定价: $ 113.00

内容简介

The world you can feel and touch is built of atoms, the smallest identifiable chunks of matter. Yet the heart of each atom is itself a whole new world, a world populated by quarks: indivisible, vanishingly small, the ultimate building blocks of our universe. This inner world where quarks reign is subject to new and unfamiliar rules, the rules of the quantum world. Colossal particle accelerators enable physicists to bring this inner world into focus, and have helped them shape a theory respectful of quantum rules that explains how quarks feel one another's presence. The Quantum Quark is the story of that theory: quantum chromodynamics.

作者简介

安德鲁·华生是一位自由职业的科学记者和作家。他在曼彻斯特大学拿到理论物理博士学位之后，继续研究和讲授物理。他现在是食物研究所（Instituteof Food Research）的兼职科学家，同时也写作。他经常为《科学》杂志写文章。

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