The scope of the book is to give an overview of the history of astroparticle physics, starting with the discovery of cosmic rays (Victor Hess, 1912) and its background (X-ray, radioactivity).
The book focusses on the ways in which physics changes in the course of this history. The following changes run parallel, overlap, and/or interact:
- Discovery of effects like X-rays, radioactivity, cosmic rays, new particles but also progress through non-discoveries (monopoles) etc.
- The change of the description of nature in physics, as consequence of new theoretical questions at the beginning of the 20th century, giving rise to quantum physics, relativity, etc.
- The change of experimental methods, cooperations, disciplinary divisions.
With regard to the latter change, a main topic of the book is to make the specific multi-diciplinary features of astroparticle physics clear.
Produkteigenschaften
- Artikelnummer: 9789400754218
- Medium: Buch
- ISBN: 978-94-007-5421-8
- Verlag: Springer Netherlands
- Erscheinungstermin: 29.12.2012
- Sprache(n): Englisch
- Auflage: 2012
- Produktform: Gebunden
- Gewicht: 699 g
- Seiten: 346
- Format (B x H x T): 160 x 241 x 24 mm
- Ausgabetyp: Kein, Unbekannt
