From Quarks To Black Holes

Author : Richard T. Hammond
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Science
ISBN : 9812386521

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From Quarks to Black Holes by Richard T. Hammond Pdf

This book presents a series of delightful interviews in which natural objects such as an electron, a black hole, a galaxy, and even the vacuum itself, reveal their innermost secrets OCo not only what they are but also how they feel. A hydrogen atom tells us about quantum mechanics and why we live in a non-deterministic world; a black hole explains curved space and naked singularities; and a uranium atom talks of its life on a meteor, its tremendous collision with Earth, and properties of radioactivity OCo all while grappling with its own mortality. A neutron star gives a personal account of its creation and goes on to discuss quasars and other extraordinary astronomical objects, while an iron atom describes its birth in a remote supernova explosion and its series of adventures on Earth, from its early use in wrought iron processes to its time in a human body, and then to its latest misadventures. The book discusses many fundamental issues in physics and, at times, examines the philosophical and moral issues of society. For example, the interview with the quark reveals the nature of color gauge symmetry, which is interwoven with a discussion on truth and beauty, and shows how these concepts play an integral part in physics and nature, while the uranium atom expresses its horror of the development and use of the atomic bomb. Contents: Interview with a Carbon Atom; Interview with an Electron; Interview with Jupiter; Interview with a Black Hole; Interview with a Uranium Atom; Interview with a Fermion and a Boson; Interview with a Star; Interview with a Wimp; Interview with a Comet; Interview with a Spiral Galaxy; Interview with a Neutrino; Interview with a Hydrogen Atom; Interview with a Neutron; Interview with a Quark; Interview with a Tachyon; Interview with a Quasar; Interview with Antimatter; Interview with Iron; Interview with a Muon; Interview with a Neutron Star; Interview with a String; Interview with Vacuum. Readership: Scientists and anyone interested in the natural world."

Author : Xavier Calmet,Bernard Carr,Elizabeth Winstanley
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2013-11-22
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783642389399

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Quantum Black Holes by Xavier Calmet,Bernard Carr,Elizabeth Winstanley Pdf

Written by foremost experts, this short book gives a clear description of the physics of quantum black holes. The reader will learn about quantum black holes in four and higher dimensions, primordial black holes, the production of black holes in high energy particle collisions, Hawking radiation, black holes in models of low scale quantum gravity and quantum gravitational aspects of black holes.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789814480079

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From Quarks to Black Holes by Anonim Pdf

Author : Janna Levin
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2022-03-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781984899798

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Black Hole Survival Guide by Janna Levin Pdf

From the acclaimed author of Black Hole Blues and Other Songs from Outer Space—an authoritative and accessible guide to the most alluring and challenging phenomena of contemporary science. "[Levin will] take you on a safe black hole trip, an exciting travel story enjoyed from your chair’s event horizon.” —Boston Globe Through her writing, astrophysicist Janna Levin has focused on making the science she studies not just comprehensible but also, and perhaps more important, intriguing to the nonscientist. In this book, she helps us to understand and find delight in the black hole—perhaps the most opaque theoretical construct ever imagined by physicists—illustrated with original artwork by American painter and photographer Lia Halloran. Levin takes us on an evocative exploration of black holes, provoking us to imagine the visceral experience of a black hole encounter. She reveals the influence of black holes as they populate the universe, sculpt galaxies, and even infuse the whole expanse of reality that we inhabit. Lively, engaging, and utterly unique, Black Hole Survival Guide is not just informative—it is, as well, a wonderful read from first to last.

Author : Janna Levin
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2016-03-29
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780307958204

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Black Hole Blues and Other Songs from Outer Space by Janna Levin Pdf

The authoritative story of the headline-making discovery of gravitational waves—by an eminent theoretical astrophysicist and award-winning writer. From the author of How the Universe Got Its Spots and A Madman Dreams of Turing Machines, the epic story of the scientific campaign to record the soundtrack of our universe. Black holes are dark. That is their essence. When black holes collide, they will do so unilluminated. Yet the black hole collision is an event more powerful than any since the origin of the universe. The profusion of energy will emanate as waves in the shape of spacetime: gravitational waves. No telescope will ever record the event; instead, the only evidence would be the sound of spacetime ringing. In 1916, Einstein predicted the existence of gravitational waves, his top priority after he proposed his theory of curved spacetime. One century later, we are recording the first sounds from space, the soundtrack to accompany astronomy’s silent movie. In Black Hole Blues and Other Songs from Outer Space, Janna Levin recounts the fascinating story of the obsessions, the aspirations, and the trials of the scientists who embarked on an arduous, fifty-year endeavor to capture these elusive waves. An experimental ambition that began as an amusing thought experiment, a mad idea, became the object of fixation for the original architects—Rai Weiss, Kip Thorne, and Ron Drever. Striving to make the ambition a reality, the original three gradually accumulated an international team of hundreds. As this book was written, two massive instruments of remarkably delicate sensitivity were brought to advanced capability. As the book draws to a close, five decades after the experimental ambition began, the team races to intercept a wisp of a sound with two colossal machines, hoping to succeed in time for the centenary of Einstein’s most radical idea. Janna Levin’s absorbing account of the surprises, disappointments, achievements, and risks in this unfolding story offers a portrait of modern science that is unlike anything we’ve seen before.

Author : Stephen Hawking,Stephen William Hawking
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Black holes (Astronomy)
ISBN : 0553015184

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A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking,Stephen William Hawking Pdf

????Provides an introduction to today's scientific ideas about the cosmos and reviews past theories. Also covers black holes, quarks, antimatter, and other mysteries of physics.

Author : Tom Jackson
Publisher : Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2018-07-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781538226698

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What’s Inside a Black Hole? Theories about Space Phenomena by Tom Jackson Pdf

What happens when someone or something goes into a black hole? This book introduces some of the major ideas in cosmology, bringing quarks, preons, hypothetical subparticles, pulsars, galaxies, the Big Bang theory, dark energy, and gravitational waves into detailed focus through accessible language and vivid full-color art work. The text includes fascinating sidebars and fact boxes that add extra excitement to this look into deep space phenomena. Whether it's about Stephen Hawking or the James Webb telescope, even the most reluctant readers are sure to enjoy this book.

Author : Paul V. Kreitler
Publisher : Nova Publishers
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Science
ISBN : 1594544751

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Trends in Black Hole Research by Paul V. Kreitler Pdf

A black hole is a point of extreme mass in spacetime with a radius, or event horizon, inside of which all electromagnetic radiation (including light) is trapped by gravity. A black hole is an extremely compact object, collapsed by gravity which has overcome electric and nuclear forces. It is believed that stars appreciably larger than the Sun, once they have exhausted all their nuclear fuel, collapse to form black holes: they are "black" because no light escapes their intense gravity. Material attracted to a black hole, though, gains enormous energy and can radiate part of it before being swallowed up. Some astronomers believe that enormously massive black holes exist in the centre of our galaxy and of other galaxies. This new book brings together leading research from throughout the world.

Author : Stephen Hawking
Publisher : Bantam
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2011-05-04
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780553896923

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A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking Pdf

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A landmark volume in science writing by one of the great minds of our time, Stephen Hawking’s book explores such profound questions as: How did the universe begin—and what made its start possible? Does time always flow forward? Is the universe unending—or are there boundaries? Are there other dimensions in space? What will happen when it all ends? Told in language we all can understand, A Brief History of Time plunges into the exotic realms of black holes and quarks, of antimatter and “arrows of time,” of the big bang and a bigger God—where the possibilities are wondrous and unexpected. With exciting images and profound imagination, Stephen Hawking brings us closer to the ultimate secrets at the very heart of creation.

Author : Derek J. Raine,Edwin George Thomas
Publisher : Imperial College Press
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781860945861

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Black Holes by Derek J. Raine,Edwin George Thomas Pdf

Providing an introduction to the fascinating subject of black holes, this book is suitable for advanced undergraduates and first year postgraduates. It offers an introduction to the exact solutions of Einstein's vacuum field equations, describing spherical and axisymmetric (rotating) black holes.

Author : Kirill A Bronnikov,Sergey G Rubin
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 591 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2021-06-29
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789811233463

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Black Holes, Cosmology And Extra Dimensions (Second Edition) by Kirill A Bronnikov,Sergey G Rubin Pdf

Assuming basic knowledge of special and general relativity, this book guides the reader to problems under consideration in modern research, concerning black holes, wormholes, cosmology, and extra dimensions. Its first part is devoted to local strong field configurations (black holes and wormholes) in general relativity and its most relevant extensions: scalar-tensor, f(R), and multidimensional theories. The second part discusses cosmology, including inflation and problems of a unified description of the whole evolution of the universe. The third part concerns multidimensional theories of gravity and contains a number of original results obtained by the authors. Expository work is conducted for a mechanism of symmetries and fundamental constants formation. The original approach to nonlinear multidimensional gravity that is able to construct a unique perspective describing different phenomena is highlighted.Much of the content was previously presented only in journal publications and is new for book contents, e.g., on regular black holes, various scalar field solutions, wormholes and their stability, inflation, clusters of primordial black holes, and multidimensional gravity. The last two topics are added in this new edition of the book. The other chapters are also updated to include new discoveries like the detection of gravitational waves.

Author : Chris Ferrie
Publisher : Sourcebooks, Inc.
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2019-09-03
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781728216126

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There Was a Black Hole that Swallowed the Universe by Chris Ferrie Pdf

Spark your child's imagination through science and learning with this captivating astronomy book for toddlers. When it comes to kids books about black holes nothing else can compare to this clever science parody from the #1 science author for kids, Chris Ferrie! PLUS, use a black light to reveal secret, invisible text and artwork that reverses the story from nothing to the scientific creation of everything! Using the familiar rhythm of "There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly," follow along as the black hole swallows up the universe and everything that exists in it, from the biggest to the smallest pieces of matter. The silly, vibrant artwork is sure to make stargazers of all ages smile and start a love of science in your baby. There was a black hole that swallowed the universe. I don't know why it swallowed the universe—oh well, it couldn't get worse. There was a black hole that swallowed a galaxy. It left quite a cavity after swallowing that galaxy. It swallowed the galaxies that filled universe. I don't know why it swallowed the universe—oh well, it couldn't get worse.

Author : Tom Jackson
Publisher : Science of the Future
Page : 49 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2020-03-05
Category : Black holes (Astronomy)
ISBN : 9781474777889

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Exploring Black Holes and Other Space Mysteries by Tom Jackson Pdf

What is dark matter? What are gravitational waves? From the Big Bang to the Big Rip, from quasars to the Eridanus Supervoid, this book traces the journey so far of scientific discoveries in black holes and other space phenomena, then takes a look at new technical advancements such as the use of infrared signals to study ancient stars.

Author : Lawrence A. Jameson
Publisher : Nova Publishers
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Science
ISBN : 1590332873

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Black Holes by Lawrence A. Jameson Pdf

Author : Leonard Susskind,James Lindesay
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Science
ISBN : 9812561315

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An Introduction to Black Holes, Information and the String Theory Revolution by Leonard Susskind,James Lindesay Pdf

- A unique exposition of the foundations of the quantum theory of black holes including the impact of string theory, the idea of black hole complementarily and the holographic principle bull; Aims to educate the physicist or student of physics who is not an expert on string theory, on the revolution that has grown out of black hole physics and string theory