Third thoughts
This is the third in a series of volumes of essays by Steven Weinberg, the previous two having also been published by HUP (Facing Up in 2001, and Lake Views in 2010). Weinberg, recipient of the Nobel Prize (1979) with Abdus Shalam and Sheldon Glashow for their contributions to the electroweak unific...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, Massachusetts :
The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
2018.
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| Colección: | EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
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| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b45623260*spi |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- I. Science history: The uses of astronomy
- The art of discovery
- From Rutherford to the LHC
- Educators and academics, underground in Texas
- The rise of the standard models
- Long times and short times
- Keeping an eye on the present: Whig history of science
- The Whig history of science: an exchange
- II. Physics and cosmology: What is an elementary particle?
- The universe we still don't know
- Varieties of symmetry
- The Higgs, and beyond
- Why the Higgs?
- The trouble with quantum mechanics
- III. Public matters: Obama gets space funding right
- The crisis of big science
- Liberal disappointment
- Keep loopholes open
- Against manned space flight
- Skeptics and scientists
- IV. Personal matters: Change course
- Writing about science
- On being wrong
- The craft of science, and the craft of art
- New York to Austin, and return.
