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World Scientific Series in Astronomy and Astrophysics #11: Find a Hotter Place!: A History of...
by Ludwik Marian Celnikier
Available from Powells Used Books
$54.95
on 8-23-2008
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ISBN Number: 9789812567307
Subtitle: A History of Nuclear Astrophysics
Author: Celnikier, Ludwik Marian
Author: Ceinikler, Ludwik Marian
Author: Celnikier, Ludwik Marian
Publisher: Libri
Subject: Astrophysics & Space Science
Subject: Cosmology
Subject: Astronomy, General
Copyright: 2006
Series: World Scientific Series in Astronomy and Astrophysics
Series Volume: 11
Publication Date: March 2006
Cover Type: Paperback
Written in: English
Number of Pages: 191
Book Size: 9.04x6.22x.81 in. 1.16 lbs.
Find a hotter place! is the insightful story of the tortured path that led to our current understanding of how the elements in the Universe came to be. This is a story which began in Greek Antiquity, with the first musings on the nature of matter and the void, and continues today with ever more refined analyses involving virtually every aspect of 20th century physics, astronomy, cosmology and information technology. Identifying the source of stellar energy, probing the earliest instants of the Universe, and discovering of how and where each element was made are some of the outstanding success stories of the 20th century, but have received little attention beyond the specialized literature. The year 2007 marks the 50th anniversary of the publication of one of the key papers on stellar nucleosynthesis, universally referred to as the B2FH paper. This book is a timely survey of how a new discipline — nuclear astrophysics — was born, and how it has matured. Almost completely nontechnical, the book remains scientifically rigorous, and thereby fills an important gap. Science is not a linear process, as the ill-named scientific method might suggest to the unwary. The author emphasizes the meanders, the dead ends and the obsessive dogmas which have guided researchers through the 20th century. He also makes it clear that our understanding of where the elements come from has come through discoveries in diverse, not necessarily related, disciplines. Synopsis: Find a hotter place! is the insightful story of the tortured path that led to our current understanding of how the elements in the Universe came to be. This is a story which began in Greek Antiquity, with the first musings on the nature of matter and the void, and continues today with ever more refined analyses involving virtually every aspect of 20th century physics, astronomy, cosmology and information technology. Identifying the source of stellar energy, probing the earliest instants of the Universe, and discovering of how and where each element was made are some of the outstanding success stories of the 20th century, but have received little attention beyond the specialized literature. The year 2007 marks the 50th anniversary of the publication of one of the key papers on stellar nucleosynthesis, universally referred to as the B2FH paper. This book is a timely survey of how a new discipline ? nuclear astrophysics ? was born, and how it has matured. Almost completely non-technical,
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