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Knocking on Heaven's Door电子书

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作       者:Randall, Lisa

出  版  社:Ecco

出版时间:2011-09-20

字       数:73.3万

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From one of Time magazine 100 most influential people in the world, a rousing defense of the role of science in our lives The latest developments in physics have the potential to radically revise our understanding of the world: its makeup, its evolution, and the fundamental forces that drive its operation. Knocking on Heaven Door is an exhilarating and accessible overview of these developments and an impassioned argument for the significance of science. There could be no better guide than Lisa Randall. The bestselling author of Warped Passages is an expert in both particle physics (the study of the smallest objects we know of) and cosmology (the study of the largest). In Knocking on Heaven Door , she explores how we decide which scientific questions to study and how we go about answering them. She examines the role of risk, creativity, uncertainty, beauty, and truth in scientific thinking through provocative conversations with leading figures in other fields (such as the chef David Chang, the forecaster Nate Silver, and the screenwriter Scott Derrickson), and she explains with wit and clarity the latest ideas in physics and cosmology. Randall describes the nature and goals of the largest machine ever built: the Large Hadron Collider, the enormous particle accelerator below the border of France and Switzerland as well as recent ideas underlying cosmology and current dark matter experiments. The most sweeping and exciting science book in years, Knocking on Heaven Door makes clear the biggest scientific questions we face and reveals how answering them could ultimately tell us who we are and where we came from.
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Cover

Title Page

Contents

List of Illustrations

Introduction

Part I: Scaling Reality

Chapter One: What’s So Small to You Is So Large to Me

Chapter Two: Unlocking Secrets

Chapter Three: Living in a Material World

Chapter Four: Looking for Answers

Part II: Scaling Matter

Chapter Five: The Magical Mystery Tour

Chapter Six: "Seeing" Is Believing

Chapter Seven: The Edge of the Universe

Part III: Machinery, Measurements, and Probability

Chapter Eight: One Ring to Rule Them All

Chapter Nine: The Return of the Ring

Chapter Ten: Black Holes That Will Devour the World

Chapter Eleven: Risky Business

Chapter Twelve: Measurement and Uncertainty

Chapter Thirteen: The CMS and ATLAS Experiments

Chapter Fourteen: Identifying Particles

Part IV: Modeling, Predicting, and Anticipating Results

Chapter Fifteen: Truth, Beauty, and Other Scientific Misconceptions

Chapter Sixteen: The Higgs Boson

Chapter Seventeen: The World’s Next Top Model

Chapter Eighteen: Bottom-Up Versus Top-Down

Part V: Scaling the Universe

Chapter Nineteen: Inside Out

Chapter Twenty: What’s So Large to You Is So Small to Me

Chapter Twenty-One: Visitors from the Dark Side

Part VI: Roundup

Chapter Twenty-Two: Think Globally and Act Locally

Conclusion

Index

Acknowledgments

About the Author

Praise

Other Works

Credits

Copyright

About the Publisher

Endnotes

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