Isbn: 9798258306159 - particles and paradoxes: ten stories inspired by the nobel prize in physics laureates, 1990 to 1999: 10 (the nobel physics stories: a decade-by-decade short story series) (5 resultados)

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Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - Particles and Paradoxes is the tenth volume in a series of thirteen books, each covering a decade of Nobel Prize winners in Physics through a collection of original short stories. Between 1990 and 1999, physics proved that the invisible could be held, counted, and calculated. Scientists fired high energy electrons to reveal the discrete, point like constituents inside protons. They designed detectors that expanded the evidence base of high energy interactions, discovered new particles that forced the entire subatomic family structure to adjust, and used laser light to hold atoms still enough to be questioned without the distraction of heat. The Nobel Prize in Physics tracked a decade where chaotic systems found their governing rules and the universe's most elusive signals were finally caught. In this volume, ten prizes become ten works of literary fiction: a courtroom battle over whether a measurement can prove the internal structure of a proton rather than just infer it; a committee rediscovering the physics of phase transitions to regulate smart fabrics; a heist targeting a particle detector blueprint whose gas gain and wire geometry are the only locks; an astronomer decoding a pulsar's timing to reconstruct a binary orbit and test gravitational energy loss; a materials mystery where neutron diffraction reveals the hidden atomic lattice causing a battery to fail; a protagonist finding their own missing energy while building an experiment to detect the elusive neutrino; a future society discovering that superfluid helium three proves the universe keeps secrets behind extreme temperature thresholds; a security analyst recalibrating cold atom sensors that misread social magnetic noise as criminal threats; citizens in a restrictive city forming a collective order where value becomes fractional and emergent; and a legal engineer proving that the unification of two forces is only valid if its outcomes remain finite and testable. Every discovery is accurate. Every story is new. Together they make the tenth decade of Nobel physics not a chapter in a textbook but a living world, full of people for whom these ideas arrived not as settled knowledge but as sudden, disorienting, and irreversible light. …

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. Particles and Paradoxes is the tenth volume in a series of thirteen books, each covering a decade of Nobel Prize winners in Physics through a collection of original short stories. Between 1990 and 1999, physics proved that the invisible could be held, counted, and calculated. Scientists fired high energy electrons to reveal the discrete, point like constituents inside protons. They designed detectors that expanded the evidence base of high energy interactions, discovered new particles that forced the entire subatomic family structure to adjust, and used laser light to hold atoms still enough to be questioned without the distraction of heat. The Nobel Prize in Physics tracked a decade where chaotic systems found their governing rules and the universe's most elusive signals were finally caught. In this volume, ten prizes become ten works of literary fiction: a courtroom battle over whether a measurement can prove the internal structure of a proton rather than just infer it; a committee rediscovering the physics of phase transitions to regulate smart fabrics; a heist targeting a particle detector blueprint whose gas gain and wire geometry are the only locks; an astronomer decoding a pulsar's timing to reconstruct a binary orbit and test gravitational energy loss; a materials mystery where neutron diffraction reveals the hidden atomic lattice causing a battery to fail; a protagonist finding their own missing energy while building an experiment to detect the elusive neutrino; a future society discovering that superfluid helium three proves the universe keeps secrets behind extreme temperature thresholds; a security analyst recalibrating cold atom sensors that misread social magnetic noise as criminal threats; citizens in a restrictive city forming a collective order where value becomes fractional and emergent; and a legal engineer proving that the unification of two forces is only valid if its outcomes remain finite and testable. Every discovery is accurate. Every story is new. Together they make the tenth decade of Nobel physics not a chapter in a textbook but a living world, full of people for whom these ideas arrived not as settled knowledge but as sudden, disorienting, and irreversible light. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. …

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Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. Particles and Paradoxes is the tenth volume in a series of thirteen books, each covering a decade of Nobel Prize winners in Physics through a collection of original short stories. Between 1990 and 1999, physics proved that the invisible could be held, counted, and calculated. Scientists fired high energy electrons to reveal the discrete, point like constituents inside protons. They designed detectors that expanded the evidence base of high energy interactions, discovered new particles that forced the entire subatomic family structure to adjust, and used laser light to hold atoms still enough to be questioned without the distraction of heat. The Nobel Prize in Physics tracked a decade where chaotic systems found their governing rules and the universe's most elusive signals were finally caught. In this volume, ten prizes become ten works of literary fiction: a courtroom battle over whether a measurement can prove the internal structure of a proton rather than just infer it; a committee rediscovering the physics of phase transitions to regulate smart fabrics; a heist targeting a particle detector blueprint whose gas gain and wire geometry are the only locks; an astronomer decoding a pulsar's timing to reconstruct a binary orbit and test gravitational energy loss; a materials mystery where neutron diffraction reveals the hidden atomic lattice causing a battery to fail; a protagonist finding their own missing energy while building an experiment to detect the elusive neutrino; a future society discovering that superfluid helium three proves the universe keeps secrets behind extreme temperature thresholds; a security analyst recalibrating cold atom sensors that misread social magnetic noise as criminal threats; citizens in a restrictive city forming a collective order where value becomes fractional and emergent; and a legal engineer proving that the unification of two forces is only valid if its outcomes remain finite and testable. Every discovery is accurate. Every story is new. Together they make the tenth decade of Nobel physics not a chapter in a textbook but a living world, full of people for whom these ideas arrived not as settled knowledge but as sudden, disorienting, and irreversible light. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability. …