Unifying the Universe: The Physics of Heaven and Earth

ISBN-13: 9781032174815 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 508 str.

Hasan S. Padamsee

Opis

Fully updated throughout, with a new chapter on the 'Quantum World' and supplementary video resources, this new edition includes clear and well-planned links to the arts and philosophies of relevant historical periods to bring science and the humanities together.

Spis treści

Part 1: The Earth. 1. The Shapes of Nature: Beginnings of Scientific Thought. 2. Matter in Motion - An Elementary Quest: Beyond Reason and Observation. 3. Science Lost, Science Regained: The Rise of Empiricism. 4. Terrestrial Motion: Dynamic Symmetries. Part 2: The Heavens. 5. Celestial Motion: A Heavenly Romance with the Solar System. 6. Spherical Models: Scaling the Cosmos. 7. Reformation and Revolution: Changing Perspectives. 8. Laws of Motion in the Heavens: Opening New Doors through Precision. 9. A New Heaven: A Wide-Open Universe. Part 3: Synthesis. 10. Rise of the Mechanical Universe: Unifying Space and Time. 11. Universal Gravitation: The First Synthesis. 12. Quantum Wonderland. 13. Unity in Physics.

O autorze

Hasan Padamsee is a Professor at Cornell University. He received his BS in Physics from Brandeis University in 1967, and his PhD in Physics from Northeastern University, Boston Mass, in 1973. He later worked at Cornell University in Superconducting Radio Frequency (SRF) science and technology, creating applications for particle accelerators. In 1990, he launched the TeV Energy Superconducting Linear Accelerator (TESLA) which morphed into the TESLA collaboration headed by DESY, and subsequently into the International Linear Collider (ILC). Prof Padamsee received the IEEE Particle Accelerator and Science Technology (PAST) in 2012 and the APS Robert R. Wilson Prize for Achievement in the Physics of Particle Accelerators in 2015. In 2014, Fermilab appointed Prof. Padamsee as the Head of the Technical Division to oversee the development of SRF for the Linac Coherent Light Source –II at SLAC, as well as for Proton Improvement Program (PIP-II) at Fermilab.