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A quantum love story / by Chen, Mike,author.(CARDINAL)796465;
Grieving her best friend's recent death, neuroscientist Mariana Pineda's ready to give up everything to start anew. Even her career--after one last week consulting at a top secret particle accelerator. Except the strangest thing happens: a man stops her...and claims they've met before. Carter Cho knows who she is, why she's mourning, why she's there. And he needs Mariana to remember everything he's saying. But just as they figure out this new life, everything changes. Because Carter's memories of the time loop are slowly disappearing. And their only chance at happiness is breaking out of the loop--forever.
Subjects: Time-travel fiction.; Novels.; Romance fiction.; Science fiction.; Man-woman relationships; Memory; Women scientists;
Available copies: 16 / Total copies: 19
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The particle at the end of the universe : how the hunt for the Higgs boson leads us to the edge of a new world / by Carroll, Sean,1966-author.(CARDINAL)544558;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-320) and index.Prologue -- The point -- Next to godliness -- Atoms and particles -- The accelerator story -- The largest machine ever built -- Wisdom through smashing -- Particles in the waves -- Through a broken mirror -- Bringing down the house -- Spreading the word -- Nobel dreams -- Beyond this horizon -- Making it worth defending -- Appendix one. Mass and spin -- Appendix two. Standard model particles -- Appendix three. Particles and their interactions.Scientists have just announced an historic discovery on a par with the splitting of the atom: the Higgs boson, the key to understanding why mass exists, has been found. Carroll takes readers behind the scenes of the Large Hadron Collider at CERN to meet the scientists and explain this landmark event. We only discovered the electron just over a hundred years ago and considering where that took us-- from nuclear energy to quantum computing-- the inventions that will result from the Higgs discovery will be world-changing.
Subjects: Higgs bosons.;
Available copies: 9 / Total copies: 11
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The particle at the end of the universe : how the hunt for the Higgs boson leads us to the edge of a new world / by Carroll, Sean,1966-author.(CARDINAL)544558;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Prologue -- The point -- Next to godliness -- Atoms and particles -- The accelerator story -- The largest machine ever built -- Wisdom through smashing -- Particles in the waves -- Through a broken mirror -- Bringing down the house -- Spreading the word -- Nobel dreams -- Beyond this horizon -- Making it worth defending -- Appendix one. Mass and spin -- Appendix two. Standard model particles -- Appendix three. Particles and their interactions.Scientists have just announced an historic discovery on a par with the splitting of the atom: the Higgs boson, the key to understanding why mass exists, has been found. Carroll takes readers behind the scenes of the Large Hadron Collider at CERN to meet the scientists and explain this landmark event. We only discovered the electron just over a hundred years ago and considering where that took us-- from nuclear energy to quantum computing-- the inventions that will result from the Higgs discovery will be world-changing.
Subjects: Higgs bosons.;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 3
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The elements : a visual history of their discovery / by Ball, Philip,1962-Author(DLC)n 93097576 ;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 218-220) and index.The classical elements -- The antique metals -- Alchemical elements -- The new metals -- Chemistry's golden age -- Electrical discoveries -- The radiant age -- The nuclear age."The Elements is a stunning visual history of how the chemical elements were discovered. By piecing together the Periodic Table, science writer Philip Ball explores not only how we came to understand what everything is made of but also how chemistry developed into a modern science. He groups the elements into chronological eras of discovery, covering three millennia from the first known to the last named. As he moves deliberately from classical antiquity to the age of atomic bombs and particle accelerators, Ball highlights images and stories from around the world and sheds needed light on those who struggled for their ideas to gain inclusion. By featuring some elements that aren't true elements but were thought to be, such as phlogiston and caloric, Elements makes bold choices in order to tell the full history of this important science. To order the book's sequence into eras of element discovery, separate short sections for each element or groups of related elements are gathered into larger parts. Short interludes (or feature spreads) are interspersed that convey important intellectual milestones in how we think about the elements"--.
Subjects: Chemical elements; Periodic table of the elements; Chemistry;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Particle physics for non-physicists [videorecording] a tour of the microcosmos / by Pollock, Steven.; Teaching Company.(CARDINAL)349444;
Lecture 1. The nature of physics -- lecture 2. The standard model of particle physics -- lecture 3. The pre-history of particle physics -- lecture 4. The birth of modern physics -- lecture 5. Quantum mechanics gets serious -- lecture 6. New particles and new technologies -- lecture 7. Weak interactions and the neutrino -- lecture 8. Accelerators and the particle explosion -- lecture 9. The particle "Zoo" -- lecture 10. Fields and forces -- lecture 11. Three quarks for muster mark -- lecture 12. From quarks to QCD -- lecture 13. Symmetry and conservation laws -- lecture 14. Broken symmetry, shattered mirrors -- lecture 15. The November revolution of 1974 -- lecture 16. A new generation -- lecture 17. Weak forces and the standard model -- lecture 18. The greatest success story in physics -- lecture 19. The Higgs particle -- lecture 20. The solar neutrino puzzle -- lecture 21. Back to the future (1) : experiments to come -- lecture 22. Back to the future (2) : puzzles and progress -- lecture 23. Really big stuff : the origin of the universe -- lecture 24. Looking back and looking forward.Lectures by Steven Pollock.Would you like to know how the universe works? The science that has found many of the answers to that profound and age-old question is particle physics, the study of those impossibly tiny particles with unbelievably strange names : bosons and leptons, quarks and neutrinos. Steven Pollock translates the language of the remarkable science that, in only 100 years, has unlocked the secrets of the basic forces of nature. You will become familiar with the fundamental particles that make up all matter, from the tiniest microbe to the Sun and stars. You will also learn the "rules of the game" (the forces the particles feel and the ways they interact) that underlie the workings of the universe. This course is designed to be enriching for everyone, regardless of scientific background or mathematical ability. Virtually all you will need to enjoy and benefit from it are curiosity, common sense, and "an open mind for the occasional quantum weirdness," according to Professor Pollock.DVD.
Subjects: Cosmology.; Particles (Nuclear physics);
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The proton / by Bortz, Fred,1944-(CARDINAL)762407;
Includes bibliographical references and index.The atomic nature of matter -- Inside the atom -- Inside the nucleus -- A universe of protons.A look into the discovery of the most fundamental subatomic particle in nature, the proton, which determines why elements have different physical and chemical properties.Accelerated Reader AR
Subjects: Particles (Nuclear physics); Protons;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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The neutrino. by Bortz, Fred,1944-(CARDINAL)762407;
Accelerated Reader AR
Subjects: Neutrinos; Particles (Nuclear physics);
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The neutron. by Bortz, Fred,1944-(CARDINAL)762407;
Accelerated Reader AR
Subjects: Neutrons; Particles;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Fundamental : how quantum and particle physics explain absolutely everything / by James, Tim,(Chemistry teacher)Author(DLC)no2019152364;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-222) and index.A brilliantly diverting and mind-expanding guide to quantum and particle physics. At the start of the twentieth century, our knowledge of science appeared complete and it seemed that the laws of nature were almost all discovered, but then we woke a sleeping giant--we discovered quantum mechanics. In the quantum realm, objects can be in two places at once. It's a place where time travel is not only possible, but necessary. It's a place where cause and effect can happen in reverse and observing something changes its state. From parallel universes to antimatter, quantum mechanics has revealed that when you get right down to it, the laws of nature are insane. The scientist J. B. S. Haldane once said, "Reality is not only stranger than we imagine, it's stranger than we can imagine." Never is this more true than with quantum mechanics. This comprehensive beginner's guide to quantum mechanics explains not only the weirdness of the subject but the experiments that proved it to be true. Using a humorous and light-hearted approach, Fundamental tells the story of how the most brilliant minds in science grappled with seemingly impossible ideas and gave us everything from microchips to particle accelerators. Fundamental gives clear explanations of all the quantum phenomena known to modern science, without requiring an understanding of complex mathematics; it tells the eccentric stories of the scientists who made these shattering discoveries and what they used them for; it explains how quantum field theory (a topic not covered in detail by any other popular-science book) gave rise to particle physics and why the Higgs boson isn't the end of the story.
Subjects: Quantum theory.; Physics; Science;
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The quark / by Bortz, Fred,1944-(CARDINAL)762407;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Finding the fundamental -- The divisible atom -- From quantum mechanics to quarks -- Putting it together.Discusses quarks, fundamental particles that make up protons, neutrons, and other subatomic particles, and describes the process by which scientists came to "detect" them.Accelerated Reader AR
Subjects: Particles (Nuclear physics); Quarks;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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