| From Ultra Rays to Astroparticles: A Historical Introduction to Astroparticle Physics 2012 Edition Contributor(s): Falkenburg, Brigitte (Editor), Rhode, Wolfgang (Editor) |
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ISBN: 940079455X ISBN-13: 9789400794559 Publisher: Springer OUR PRICE: $161.49 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 2015 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Science | Astronomy - Science | Physics - Astrophysics - Science | Philosophy & Social Aspects |
| Dewey: 520 |
| Physical Information: 0.74" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (1.10 lbs) 346 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The scope of the book is to give an overview of the history of astroparticle physics, starting with the discovery of cosmic rays (Victor Hess, 1912) and its background (X-ray, radioactivity). The book focusses on the ways in which physics changes in the course of this history. The following changes run parallel, overlap, and/or interact: - Discovery of effects like X-rays, radioactivity, cosmic rays, new particles but also progress through non-discoveries (monopoles) etc. - The change of the description of nature in physics, as consequence of new theoretical questions at the beginning of the 20th century, giving rise to quantum physics, relativity, etc. - The change of experimental methods, cooperations, disciplinary divisions. With regard to the latter change, a main topic of the book is to make the specific multi-diciplinary features of astroparticle physics clear. |