Is It the 'Same' Result: Replication in Physics

ISBN-13: 9781643271590 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 161 str.

Allan Franklin

Spis treści

• Acknowledgments
• Author biography
• 1. Introduction
• Part I Successful Replications
• 2. The discovery of the Higgs boson
• 3. The observation of gravity waves
• 4. The scattering of antineutrons by protons
• Part II Failed Replications
• 5. Is there a Fifth Force?
• 6. Is there a Universal gravitational constant?
• Part III Problems, Large and Small
• 7. Physical constants and the properties of elementary particles
• 8. Millikan's measurements of the charge of the electron
• 9. Are there low-mass electron-positron states?
• 10. The pentaquark
• 11. Whose neutrino is it, Majorana's or Dirac's?
• 12. Conclusion