the adventure of physics

... velocity of the Earth through the background radiation of course Ref. 80 depends on the season.) is value is a combination of the motion of the Sun around the galaxy centre and of the motion of the ... in the chapter on general relativity. It was the rst piece of data conrming the theory. Obviously, the length of the year also changes with time. e...

Ngày tải lên: 19/01/2014, 12:17

... Indeed, I cannot think why the whole bed of the ocean is not one solid mass of oysters, so prolific the creatures seem. Ah, I am wondering! Strange how the brain controls the brain! What was I saying, ... upon one side of its pink curve. The skull was of enormous capacity, and yet as I looked down I saw to my amazement that the figure of the man was small and fra...

Ngày tải lên: 24/10/2013, 20:15

... THE ADVENTURE OF THE DYING DETECTIVE ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE (3) From the hiding-place into which I had been so swiftly hustled I heard the footfalls upon the stair, with the opening and the ... closing of the bedroom door. Then, to my surprise, there came a long silence, broken only by the heavy breathings and gaspings of the sick man. I could imagine that our v...

Ngày tải lên: 24/10/2013, 20:15

... Weizs¨acker’s observations, especially in the third part of the book, are of extraordinary value for the history of science. The physical core of the book, the presenta- tion of ur theory in the first part, offers ... ur theory). If the ur hypothesis is correct, the symmetry of urs must play a distinguished role in physics. At this point the second pillar of...

Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 11:21

... any trouble recognizing the truth of the fun- damental unified theory. The test will be whether the theory successfully accounts for the measured values of the physical constants of the Standard Model, ... will mark the end of a certain kind of physics: the search for a unified theory that entails all other facts of physical science. www.sciam.com THE EDGE OF...

Ngày tải lên: 12/05/2014, 16:26

. microscope: the shorter the wavelength of the light, the higher the resolving power. By tuning the energy of the beam and the angle at which the electron. the treatment of how the QGP falls apart into mesons and baryons and they are doing systematic surveys of the effects of the initial density profile of

Ngày tải lên: 12/02/2014, 16:20

. that there was a striking similarity between these laws and the ordinary laws of thermodynamics. The an- alog of the temperature T was a multiple of the. surface gravity of the black hole κ, which is similar to g on Earth’s surface. The analog of the entropy S was a multiple of the area of the event horizon

Ngày tải lên: 12/02/2014, 16:20

... years one of the crowning achievements of physics has been the isolation and identification of the four forces that rule the universe. All of them can be described in the language of fields ... is that the basic laws of physics and science were not known in the nine- teenth century and the early part of the twentieth. Given the huge gaps in the unders...

Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 16:15

... gives the readers of the journal the sort of words and the sort of thoughts they are used to—so, on a larger scale, the writers of an age, without thinking of it, give to the readers of the age ... nations what they are; their born structure bears the trace of the laws of their fathers;' but the ancient nations came into no such inheritance; they we...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 13:20