Strange Matters Undiscovered Ideas at the Frontiers of Space and Time

Name: Strange Matters Undiscovered Ideas at the Frontiers of Space and Time
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ISBN: 9780425194171

ISBN-10: 0425194175

ISBN-13: 9780425194171

Edition: 2004

Authors: Tom Siegfried

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Twentieth-century physics was a long, strange trip indeed. Stranger still is what might lie ahead. In this startling book, science writer Tom Siegfried takes us into a weird world of quark nuggets, selectrons, quintessence, and quantum cosmology and introduces us to some of the most imaginative ideas being batted about by scientists today, from funny energy to mirror matter to two-timing universes. In addition, he reviews theories of the past both proven and unproven-offering us a grounding in our scientific history as well as an informed and intriguing look at the possibilities of tomorrow.

Book details

List price: $15.00
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 3/2/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 368
Size: 4.75" wide x 7.75" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.594
Language: English



Preface


Introduction



Strange Matters



Strange Matter: From Gell-Mann and Quarks to the Search for Quark Nuggets



Mirror Matter: From Dirac and Antimatter to the "Mirror World"



Super Matter: From Noether's Symmetry Theorem to Superparticles



Dark Matter: From Pauli and the Neutrino to the Universe's Missing Mass



Strange Frontiers



The Best of All Possible Bubbles: From Friedmann and Cosmic Expansion to the Multiverse



The Essence of Quintessence: From Einstein's Greatest Mistake to the Universe's Accelerating Expansion



Superstrings: From Maxwell and Electromagnetic Waves to a World Made of Strings



Strange Ideas



Stretching Your Brane: From Schwarzschild and Black Holes to New Dimensions of Space



Ghosts: From Riemann and the Geometry of Space to the Shape of the Universe



The Two-Timing Universe: From Einstein and Slow Clocks to a Second Dimension of Time


Epilogue


Notes


Further Reading


Index