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Rocket science for the rest of us : cutting-edge concepts made simple / by Gilliland, Ben,author.(CARDINAL)600945; Challoner, Jack.(CARDINAL)316020;
Mysterious universe. How big is the universe? -- The star that redrew the cosmos -- Expanding universe -- Welcome to the multiverse -- We are all doomed! -- Catch up with the stellar speed demons -- Meet the smelly dwarf -- Mercury's secrets -- How to catch a comet -- Saturn's amazing rings -- The search for alien life -- The hostile blue planet -- The space rock that "killed" Pluto -- To boldly go. The first human in space -- Pioneer 10 : the little spacecraft that could -- Voyager : our distant emissary -- Is there life on Mars? -- Colonizing Mars -- Mapping the Milky Way -- Detecting killer asteroids -- Looking beyond Mars for life -- A Webb to catch the oldest stars -- ESA's Rosetta comet chaser -- Gravity lensing to see the cosmos -- Engage warp drive! -- Space : the fatal frontier -- The appliance of science. It is only a theory -- Why does anything exist? -- Leap second -- A weird, almost perfect universe -- What is dark matter? -- Why is gravity so weak? -- Dark matter builds the universe -- We are all made of stars -- The story of the pulsar -- Doing the black hole twist -- Helium shortage -- Death rays from outer space -- Gravity slingshot -- Is glass a liquid? -- Curiosity : science's heart -- Teeny tiny, supersmall stuff. The story of the atom -- Discovering the neutron -- The world of the insanely tiny -- The certainty of uncertainty -- Seeking supersymmetry -- Higgs boson : a bluffer's guide -- Quantum gravity -- X-ray crystallography -- Particle accelerators -- Attack of the micro black holes.Want to understand black holes, antimatter, physics, and space exploration? Looking for a common sense guide to quantum physics that you can actually understand? Rocket Science for the Rest of Us is the book you're looking for! Get a grip on even the most mysterious and complex sciences with Ben Gilliland's guide to dark matter, exo-planets, Planck time, earth sciences, and more.
Subjects: Young adult literature.; Young adult literature.; Astronomy; Astrophysics; Dark matter (Astronomy); Earth sciences; Quantum theory; Rockets (Aeronautics);
Available copies: 20 / Total copies: 22
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The photon / by Bortz, Fred,1944-(CARDINAL)762407;
Includes bibliographical references and index.The nature of light -- Discovering the photon -- Photons and atoms -- Photons in technology.Accelerated Reader AR
Subjects: Light; Photons;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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The electron / by Bortz, Fred,1944-(CARDINAL)762407;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Presents the story of the discovery of the first subatomic particle and how it revolutionized understanding of the atom in chemistry and led to the new field of electronics.Accelerated Reader AR
Subjects: Young adult literature.; Young adult literature.; Electrons.;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Merlin of the magnolias / by Landry, Gardner,author.;
"Merlin McNaughton stands out from his fellow Houstonians, both in his physical proportions and his odd preoccupations. Oblivious to these myriad idiosyncrasies, and the depths of his unplumbed emotional needs, he spends his days devouring worlds of food and his nights absorbing data about Earth's magnetic energies including mysterious druidic ley lines. Financial strains upend Merlin's world, so he lands a full-time job at a blimp base. Night flights over the city and his flights of fancy concerning energy vortices keep Merlin's head in the clouds 24/7. When his computer program foretells a negative energy that may harm the entire city, Merlin wastes no time constructing a portable particle accelerator to reverse the event. But when a major malfunction destroys his meticulous plans, Merlin learns that druidic runes aren't the only things he's been misinterpreting and what's really important is what he's been overlooking all along."--Amazon.com.
Subjects: Fiction.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Fundamental : how quantum and particle physics explain absolutely everything / by James, Tim(Chemistry teacher),author.(CARDINAL)850481;
Includes bibliographic notes (pages 215-222) and index."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."--Pages [2-3] of cover.The end -- Glowing with pride -- Bits and pieces -- Aristocrats, bombs and pollen -- Taming the beast -- Things get even weirder...again -- The box and the pussycat -- The world is an illusion -- Quantum must die -- Teleportation, time machines and twirling -- Quantum mechanics proves I am Batman -- Far afield -- Lines and wiggles -- Particle physics gets jacked -- Honey, where's my Higgs? -- The trouble with G -- Timeline of quantum and particle physics -- A closer look at spin -- Solving Schrödinger -- Einstein's bicycle -- Taming infinity -- Paint with all the colours of the quark.
Subjects: Quantum theory.; Physics; Science;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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A palette of particles / by Bernstein, Jeremy,1929-(CARDINAL)137260;
Primary colors. The neutron ; The neutrino ; The electron and the photon -- Secondary colors. The pion and the muon ; The antiparticle ; Strange particles ; The quark -- Pastels. The Higgs boson ; Neutrino cosmology ; Squarks, tachyons, and the graviton -- L'envoi -- Appendix 1. Accelerators and detectors -- Appendix 2. Grand Unification -- Appendix 3. Neutrino oscillations.A guide to high-energy physics from the early twentieth century to the present, including such highlights as Ernest Rutherford's 1911 explanation of the nucleus, the newly discovered Higgs boson, and anecdotes about famous physicists.
Subjects: Particles (Nuclear physics);
Available copies: 6 / Total copies: 6
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Particle physics : a very short introduction / by Close, F. E.,author.(CARDINAL)504436;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 139-140) and index."Following the discovery of the Higgs boson, Frank Close has produced this major revision to his classic and compelling introduction to the fundamental particles that make up the universe. Frank Close takes us on a journey into the atom to examine known particles such as quarks, electrons, and the ghostly neutrino, and explains the key role and significance of the Higgs boson. Along the way he provides fascinating insights into how discoveries in particle physics have actually been made, and discusses how our picture of the world has been radically revised in the light of these developments. He concludes by looking ahead to new ideas about the mystery of antimatter and massive neutrinos, and to what the next 50 years of research might reveal about the nature of the Higgs field which moulds the fundamental particles and forces." --
Subjects: Particles (Nuclear physics); Particles (Nuclear physics);
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The pope of physics : Enrico Fermi and the birth of the Atomic Age / by Segrè, Gino,author.(CARDINAL)662479; Hoerlin, Bettina,1939-author.(CARDINAL)608847;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-333) and index."The first full-scale biography of the Nobel Prize-winning physicist and one of the fathers of the atomic age, Enrico Fermi. Enrico Fermi is unquestionably the most famous scientist to come from Italy since Galileo, so revered that he's known as The Pope of Physics. A modest, unassuming man, Fermi was nevertheless one of the most productive and creative scientists of the twentieth century, one of the fathers of the Atomic Bomb and a Nobel Prize winner whose contributions to physics and nuclear technology live on today, with the largest particle accelerator in the United States and the nation's most significant science and technology award both bearing his name. In this, the first major biography of Fermi in English, Gino Segre, professor of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Pennsylvania, brings this scientific visionary to life. An examination of the human dramas that touched Fermi's life as well as a thrilling history of scientific innovation in the twentieth century--including the birth of one of its most controversial disciplines, nuclear physics--this is the comprehensive biography that Fermi deserves"--
Subjects: Biographies.; Fermi, Enrico, 1901-1954.; Physicists; Physicists;
Available copies: 8 / Total copies: 8
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A big bang in a little room : the quest to create new universes / by Merali, Zeeya,author.(CARDINAL)340217;
Includes bibliographical references and index.God's billboard: the cosmic microwave background -- Beyond space and time: the quantum realm -- Inflating the universe -- Bursting inflation's bubble -- Universe to multiverse -- The accidental universe makers -- A baby universe, a string multiverse, or God? explaining our tailor-made universe -- The little bang theory: or how to grow a universe from a monopole -- Postcards from the edge: detecting and communicating with our baby universe -- Living in the matrix: a self-regulation guide for universe-makers."What if you could become God, with the ability to build a whole new universe in the lab? As startling as it sounds, modern physics suggests that within the next two decades, scientists may be able to perform this seemingly divine feat--to concoct an entirely new baby universe, complete with its own physical laws, star systems, galaxies, and even intelligent life. To create your own cosmos, you would need a particle accelerator, such as the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in Geneva or one of the proposed next-generation colliders, a lot of physics know-how, and a bit of luck. A Big Bang in a Little Room will take the reader on a journey through the history of cosmology and unravel--particle-by-particle, theory-by-theory, and experiment-by-experiment--the ideas behind this provocative claim made by some of the most-respected physicists alive today. Beyond simply explaining the science, A Big Bang in a Little Room will also tell the story of the people who have been plugging away for more than thirty years to make this seemingly impossible dream a reality, pushing the boundaries of our understanding of the cosmos and our place in it as humans. A Big Bang in a Little Room will examine their extravagant plans, which include current and future space missions, accelerator runs, and table-top lab experiments to search for evidence supporting their ideas. In the process, the book will ask deep philosophical questions about what it means for us, as humans, to begin to contemplate creating a new universe. Remarkable in its originality and ambition, A Big Bang in a Little Room is the ideal read for anyone seeking to understand the making of our universe--as well as the others just waiting to be created"--
Subjects: Cosmology.;
Available copies: 5 / Total copies: 5
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Ice to steam : changing states of matter / by Johnson, Penny,1960-(CARDINAL)690154;
Includes bibliographical references (page 46) and index.Ice to steam -- Water and the weather -- Solids, liquids, and gases at home -- Evaporation -- Extreme changes of state -- Volcanoes and lava -- Particle theory -- Ice: a special solid?640LAccelerated Reader ARAccelerated Reader AR
Subjects: Matter;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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