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Book SynopsisDiscusses string theory and the future of particle physics. This book describes the search for neutrino oscillations. It anticipates a new generation of particle accelerators. It reviews classical gravitation and the high-precision experiments. It also examines the breakthroughs in observational cosmology.
Trade Review"This is a marvelous book... It contains thirteen chapters, each of them a lecture given by a leading expert in some field of physics, who explains the state of affairs in that field in language that nonexperts can understand... We have James Langer on the growth of snowflakes, John Hopfield on the physics of neurons, Harold Swinney on fluid dynamics, T. V. Ramakrishnan on high-temperature superconductors, Bruce Hillman on medical imaging, Paul Steinhardt on cosmology, Thibault Damour on experimental tests of general relativity, Kip Thorne on gravitational waves, Donald Perkins on neutrino experiments, Alvin Tollestrup on the Fermilab accelerator, Robert Palmer and Juan Carlos Gallardo on future accelerators, Ed Witten on string theory, and Frank Wilczek on the future of particle physics."--American Journal of Physics
Table of ContentsPreface1The 1946 Conference: Then and Now12Nonequilibrium Physics113Dynamics, Computation, and Neurobiology294Emergence and Evolution of Patterns515High Temperature Superconductors756The Ongoing Revolution in Medical Imaging1137Cosmological Challenges for the 21st Century1238Gravitation and Experiment1479Gravitational Waves16710Neutrino Oscillations20111The Tevatron22112High Energy Colliders24713Vistas in Theoretical Physics27114The Future of Particle Physics as a Natural Science281
