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The New physics / edited by Paul Davies

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, c1989Description: 516 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cmISBN:
  • 0521304202
  • 9780521304207
  • 0521438314
  • 9780521438315
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 530 THE 19
LOC classification:
  • QC21.2 .N49 1989
NLM classification:
  • QC 21.2 N532 1989
Contents:
The new physics : a synthesis / Paul Davies -- The renaissance of general relativity / Clifford Will -- The inflationary universe / Alan Guth and Paul Steinhardt -- The edge of spacetime / Stephen Hawking -- Quantum gravity / Chris Isham -- The new astrophysics / Malcolm Longair -- Condensed matter physics in less than three dimensions / David Thouless -- Critical point phenomena : universal physics at large length scales / Alastair Bruce and David Wallace -- Low temperature physics, superconductivity and superfluidity / Anthony Leggett -- Quantum optics / Peter Knight -- Physics of far-from-equilibrium systems and self-organisation / Gregoire Nicolis -- What is chaos, that we should be mindful of it? / Joseph Ford -- Conceptual foundations of quantum mechanics / Abner Shimony -- The quark structure of matter / Frank Close -- Grand unified theories / Howard Georgi -- Effective quantum field theories / Howard Georgi -- Gauge theories in particle physics / John Taylor -- Overview of particle physics / Abdus Salam
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Includes bibliographical references and index

The new physics : a synthesis / Paul Davies -- The renaissance of general relativity / Clifford Will -- The inflationary universe / Alan Guth and Paul Steinhardt -- The edge of spacetime / Stephen Hawking -- Quantum gravity / Chris Isham -- The new astrophysics / Malcolm Longair -- Condensed matter physics in less than three dimensions / David Thouless -- Critical point phenomena : universal physics at large length scales / Alastair Bruce and David Wallace -- Low temperature physics, superconductivity and superfluidity / Anthony Leggett -- Quantum optics / Peter Knight -- Physics of far-from-equilibrium systems and self-organisation / Gregoire Nicolis -- What is chaos, that we should be mindful of it? / Joseph Ford -- Conceptual foundations of quantum mechanics / Abner Shimony -- The quark structure of matter / Frank Close -- Grand unified theories / Howard Georgi -- Effective quantum field theories / Howard Georgi -- Gauge theories in particle physics / John Taylor -- Overview of particle physics / Abdus Salam

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