In this text, a group of scientists define and elaborate on possible new directions in physics that will take place in the next century, and may increase understanding of the natural world. Topics discussed include string physics, the future of particle physics; neutreno oscillations; a new generation of particle accelerators; classical gravitation and new high-precision experiment; gravitational wave astronomy; and breakthroughs in observational cosmology.
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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
--This text refers to the Paperback edition.
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An interesting survey,
By Massimiliano Celaschi (Graffignano, Viterbo Italy) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Critical Problems in Physics (Paperback)
People with a scientific background, and working far from physics (as me), will find this textbook very interesting. A quick but also deep survey of what physicists are currently doing, in which students of _some_ years ago can recognize subjects whose birth they happened to study. Being my M.S. thesis about Boltzmann equation, I found very fascinating the chapters about diffusion theory, particularly the search for dendrytic solutions of diffusion equation. But whatever the thesis field could have been, the wide variety of described subjects is able to meet interest of every person who happened to study Physics in his/her education.
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