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Index
Cover Page Title Page Copyright Page Table of Contents Foreword Introduction: An Invitation to Our Readers CHAPTER 1: The Nature of Matter
Quantum Theory Tugged, and All of Physics Unraveled Investigating Light Waves Prof. Röntgen’s X-Rays Character of the X-Rays About X-Ray Photography The Mystery of Radium A Lecture by M. Curie Atom of Matter Can Be Detected Madame Curie’s Genius Pictures Electrons Speeding in Atom Discusses Atom from New Point Atomic Theory Clears Some Cosmic Problems Details Concepts of Quantum Theory Super X-Rays Reveal the Secret of Creation Tests of the Electron Indicate It Is a Wave To Speed Hydrogen to Break Up Atoms How to Explain the Universe? Science in a Quandary Einstein Affirms Belief in Causality Discovers Neutron, Embryonic Matter Chadwick Calls Neutron “Difficult Catch” Bombardment of Atoms Jekyll-Hyde Mind Attributed to Man Magnification Is Trebled by Electron Microscope Fermi Measures Speed of Neutron Bohr and Einstein at Odds Super-microscope Claimed by Reich Discovery of the Antiproton Ends a Long Search, Confirms Einstein’s Equation Discovery of New Particle Called “Crucial Test” of Theory Two Men in Search of the Quark Einstein: Relativity in the Kitchen Signs of Quark Discovery Cited in Stanford Report Detection of the Elusive “Gluon” Exciting Scientists New Quarks Stir Debate on Basic Laws of Nature Stanford’s New Colliding-Beam Machine to Test Theories of Physics Microscopes Peer Ever Deeper into Small World Reagan to Press for $6 Million Atom Smasher The Supercollider’s Demise Disrupts Many Lives and Rattles a Profession Europe Is Ready to Pick Up the Pieces in Particle Research Top Quark, Last Piece in Puzzle of Matter, Appears to Be in Place Physicists Manage to Create the First Antimatter Atoms Stuck in Traffic? Consult a Physicist Physicists Report the “Impossible”: Teleporting a Particle’s Properties Mass Found in Elusive Particle; Universe May Never Be the Same Almost in Awe, Physicists Ponder “Ultimate” Theory New Dimension in Dance: Thinking Man’s Macarena In Quantum Feat, Atom Is Seen in Two Places at Once Art + Physics = Beautiful Music No Hope of Silencing the Phantom Crinklers of the Opera Scientists Bring Light to Full Stop, Hold It, Then Send It on Its Way With Little Evidence, String Theory Gains Influence Quantum Stew: How Physicists Are Redefining Reality’s Rules String Theory, at 20, Explains It All (or Not) A Giant Takes on Physics’s Biggest Questions Physicists Find Elusive Particle Seen as Key to Universe
CHAPTER 2: The Practical Atom
Wireless Signals across the Ocean Light-Energy Ideas Told by Millikan Compton to Strive for Atomic Energy Radar—I Radar—II Dec. 2, 1942—The Birth of the Atomic Age Drama of the Atomic Bomb Found Climax in July 16 Test Atomic Bombing of Nagasaki Told by Flight Member Visit to Hiroshima Proves Its World’s Most-Damaged City Five Atomic Piles in Operation Here Tiny Radios Made by Armed Services Ending of All Life by Hydrogen Bomb Held a Possibility Major Gains Seen in New Amplifiers Hydrogen Is Fused for Peace or War Silicon “Battery” Represents a New Approach in Long Efforts to Harness Sun’s Power New “All-Transistor” Calculator May Surpass Electronic Models The Laser Lights Up the Future New Photo Technique Projects a World of Three-Dimensional Views Popular New X-Ray Unit Could Raise Cost of Care The Promise of Fiber Optics Two Groups Report a Breakthrough in Field of Electrical Conductivity Team Reports Breakthrough in Conductivity of Electricity Scientists Race to Explain How the New Superconductors Work Nuclear Power Gain Reported, But Experts Express Doubts Claim of Achieving Fusion in Jar Gains Support in Two Experiments Physicists Debunk Claim of a New Kind of Fusion Reviving Quest to Tame Energy of Stars In the Quantum World, Keys to New Codes Computing, One Atom at a Time Brain Surgery, Without Knife or Blood, Gains Favor Radiation’s Enduring Afterglow Physicists Create a Working Transistor from a Single Atom
CHAPTER 3: The Fate of the Universe
The Greatest Telescope in the World Einstein Expounds His New Theory Lights All Askew in the Heavens Science Seeks Secret of Life in Star Rays Giant Telescope of Immense Range to Dwarf All Others Studies of the Cosmic Ray Point to Endless Creation Earth’s Stars Akin to Spiral Nebulae New Radio Waves Traced to Center of the Milky Way New Dimensions Given to Universe Finds Galaxy Goes 100 Miles a Second Palomar Observers Dazzled in First Use of 200-inch Lens Studies Reported in Star Evolution Universe Growing, Dr. Hubble Thinks Birth of Universe Traced to Blast Radio Telescope to Expose Space Rival Cosmologies Satellite Challenges Theory of Universe Signals Imply a “Big Bang” Universe An X-Ray Scanning Satellite May Have Discovered a “Black Hole” in Space End of Universe in “Black Hole” Foreseen First Photo Taken by New Telescope Galaxy’s Speed through Universe Found to Exceed a Million MPH Antennas Sharpen Radio “View” of Heavens Island in Hawaii Is Becoming a World Astronomy Center Gravity “Lens” Is Found in Space “Big Bang” Has a Revival in New View of Universe Cosmic Powerhouse Finally Seen in Detail New View of Universe Shows Sea of Bubbles to Which Stars Cling Powerful Source of Gravity Detected Deep in the Universe Is There a Past in the Future? Huge Stellar Explosion Detected Close Enough for Careful Study Elated by Supernova, Astronomers Watch Their Theories Come to Life Massive Clusters of Galaxies Defy Concepts of the Universe Shuttle Soars 381 Miles High, with Telescope and a Dream 5,000-Mile Radio Telescope Set to Probe Depths of Time and Space Big Bang’s Defenders Weigh “Fudge Factor,” a Blunder of Einstein’s, as Fix for New Crisis Age of Universe Is Now Settled, Astronomer Says New Era Is Promised for Optical Telescopes At Other End of “Big Bang” May Simply Be a Big Sputter Peek at Black Holes’ Feast Reveals Awful Table Manners What Else Lurks Out There? New Census of the Heavens Aims to Find Out In Chilean Desert, Observatory for 21st Century Takes Shape Pictures Give Hints of Universe at Its Dawn Where Does the Time Go? Forward, Physics Shows Hubble Telescope Yields Data for Recalculating Age of Universe Galaxies’ Vastness Surprises Scientists In the Dark Matter Wars, Wimps Beat Machos Before the Big Bang There Was ... What? A New View of Our Universe: Only One of Many Radio Telescope Proves a Big Bang Prediction Cosmos Sits for Early Portrait, Gives Up Secrets Astronomers Report Evidence of “Dark Energy” Splitting the Universe Remembrance of Things Future: The Mystery of Time A Trip Forward in Time. Your Travel Agent: Einstein Dark, Perhaps Forever The Struggle to Measure Cosmic Expansion A Costly Quest for the Dark Heart of the Cosmos Particle Hunt Nets Almost Nothing; the Hunters Are Almost Thrilled There’s More to Nothing Than We Knew At the End of the Earth, Seeking Clues to the Universe American Physics Dreams Deferred
Appendices Nobel Laureates in Physics Timeline of Physics Contributors’ Biographies Photography and Illustration Credits
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