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Constructing Quarks

Author : Andrew Pickering
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226667997
Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (679 download)

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Download or read book Constructing Quarks written by Andrew Pickering and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1999-12 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Widely regarded as a classic in its field, Constructing Quarks recounts the history of the post-war conceptual development of elementary-particle physics. Inviting a reappraisal of the status of scientific knowledge, Andrew Pickering suggests that scientists are not mere passive observers and reporters of nature. Rather they are social beings as well as active constructors of natural phenomena who engage in both experimental and theoretical practice. "A prodigious piece of scholarship that I can heartily recommend."—Michael Riordan, New Scientist "An admirable history. . . . Detailed and so accurate."—Hugh N. Pendleton, Physics Today

Quarks: Frontiers In Elementary Particle Physics

Author : Yoichiro Nambu
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 9814338028
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (143 download)

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Book Synopsis Quarks: Frontiers In Elementary Particle Physics by : Yoichiro Nambu

Download or read book Quarks: Frontiers In Elementary Particle Physics written by Yoichiro Nambu and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 1985-05-01 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book explains in a precise and complete manner how elementary particle physics has evolved over the past 50 years. The historical development of the ideas that have shaped our thinking about the ultimate constituents of matter is traced out. The author has been associated with some of the originators of elementary particle theory and has made significant contributions to the field. Here, he gives a first-person description of some of the main developments leading to our present view of the universe.

Theory's Empire

Author : Daphne Patai
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231508697
Total Pages : 739 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book Theory's Empire written by Daphne Patai and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2005-04-20 with total page 739 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Not too long ago, literary theorists were writing about the death of the novel and the death of the author; today many are talking about the death of Theory. Theory, as the many theoretical ism's (among them postcolonialism, postmodernism, and New Historicism) are now known, once seemed so exciting but has become ossified and insular. This iconoclastic collection is an excellent companion to current anthologies of literary theory, which have embraced an uncritical stance toward Theory and its practitioners. Written by nearly fifty prominent scholars, the essays in Theory's Empire question the ideas, catchphrases, and excesses that have let Theory congeal into a predictable orthodoxy. More than just a critique, however, this collection provides readers with effective tools to redeem the study of literature, restore reason to our intellectual life, and redefine the role and place of Theory in the academy.

Particles, Quantum Groups, High Tc, Phase Transitions And All That - Proceedings Of The First Yanbrian International Workshop On Modern Physics

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Author : Kyungsik Kang
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 981456933X
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (145 download)

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Download or read book Particles, Quantum Groups, High Tc, Phase Transitions And All That - Proceedings Of The First Yanbrian International Workshop On Modern Physics written by Kyungsik Kang and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 1991-06-05 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These proceedings are the culmination of the First Yanbian Workshop on Modern Physics, an epoch making event in Korean history that took place in Yanbian, China during 15-18 July, 1990. The meeting was instrumental to bring the active practitioners in the frontier physic together from many parts of the world including for the first time, those from North Korea. This volume contains the most important lectures by experts in Particle Physics, Conformal Field Theory, High-Tc Superconductivity, Phase Transitions, Medium Energy Physics, Astrophysics and Cosmology.

Nature and Sociology

Author : Tim Newton
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134211511
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (342 download)

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Download or read book Nature and Sociology written by Tim Newton and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-08-07 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book engages with, and contests, the ‘new sociology of nature’. It moves beyond existing debates by presenting new social theory and working across current fields of interest, addressing the debate on new genetics and genomics, taking human biology seriously, and the issues of interdisciplinarity that are likely to arise in longer term attempts to work across the social and natural world. Nature and Sociology will be of great interest to students of a variety of disciplines including sociology and social science, human geography, social and biological anthropology, and the natural sciences.

Are Science and Mathematics Socially Constructed?

Author : Richard C. Brown
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 9812835245
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (128 download)

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Download or read book Are Science and Mathematics Socially Constructed? written by Richard C. Brown and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2009 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a history, analysis, and criticism of what the author calls ?postmodern interpretations of science? (PIS) and the closely related ?sociology of scientific knowledge? (SSK). This movement traces its origin to Thomas Kuhn's revolutionary work, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1962), but is more extreme. It believes that science is a ?social construction?, having little to do with nature, and is determined by contextual forces such as the race, class, gender of the scientist, laboratory politics, or the needs of the military industrial complex.Since the 1970s, PIS has become fashionable in the humanities, social sciences, and ethnic or women's studies, as well as in the new academic discipline of Science, Technology, and Society (STS). It has been attacked by numerous authors and the resulting conflicts led to the so-called Science Wars of the 1990s. While the present book is also critical of PIS, it focuses on its intellectual and political origins and tries to understand why it became influential in the 1970s. The book is both an intellectual and a political history. It examines the thoughts of Karl Popper, Karl Mannheim, Ludwik Fleck, Thomas Kuhn, Paul Feyerabend, David Bloor, Steve Woolgar, Steve Shapin, Bruno Latour, and PIS-like doctrines in mathematics. It also describes various philosophical contributions to PIS ranging from the Greek sophists to 20th century post-structuralists and argues that the disturbed political atmosphere of the Vietnam War era was critical to the rise of PIS.

Truth Considered and Applied

Author : Stewart E. Kelly
Publisher : B&H Publishing Group
ISBN 13 : 1433673630
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (336 download)

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Download or read book Truth Considered and Applied written by Stewart E. Kelly and published by B&H Publishing Group. This book was released on 2011-07-05 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For philosophy and theology students, Truth Considered and Applied examines the leading theories of truth in relation to postmodernism, history, and the Christian faith. Author Stewart E. Kelly defends Christianity in the face of postmodernist challenges that would label such religious faith as merely one version of truth among many in a pluralistic world. Likewise, in looking at Christianity as a historical faith, Kelly supports the need for Christians to develop a hermeneutic that does justice to the biblical texts and our informed understanding of the past in general; because if a genuine past cannot be recovered in some meaningful sense, the claims of Jesus being incarnate and risen from the dead are seriously jeopardized.

From Current Algebra to Quantum Chromodynamics

Author : Tian Yu Cao
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139491601
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)

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Download or read book From Current Algebra to Quantum Chromodynamics written by Tian Yu Cao and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-10-14 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The advent of quantum chromodynamics (QCD) in the early 1970s was one of the most important events in twentieth-century science. This book examines the conceptual steps that were crucial to the rise of QCD, placing them in historical context against the background of debates that were ongoing between the bootstrap approach and composite modeling, and between mathematical and realistic conceptions of quarks. It explains the origins of QCD in current algebra and its development through high-energy experiments, model-building, mathematical analysis and conceptual synthesis. Addressing a range of complex physical, philosophical and historiographical issues in detail, this book will interest graduate students and researchers in physics and in the history and philosophy of science.

Strange Beauty

Author : George Johnson
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307765458
Total Pages : 447 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (77 download)

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Download or read book Strange Beauty written by George Johnson and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2010-09-29 with total page 447 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With a New Afterword "Our knowledge of fundamental physics contains not one fruitful idea that does not carry the name of Murray Gell-Mann."--Richard Feynman Acclaimed science writer George Johnson brings his formidable reporting skills to the first biography of Nobel Prize-winner Murray Gell-Mann, the brilliant, irascible man who revolutionized modern particle physics with his models of the quark and the Eightfold Way. Born into a Jewish immigrant family on New York's East 14th Street, Gell-Mann's prodigious talent was evident from an early age--he entered Yale at 15, completed his Ph.D. at 21, and was soon identifying the structures of the world's smallest components and illuminating the elegant symmetries of the universe. Beautifully balanced in its portrayal of an extraordinary and difficult man, interpreting the concepts of advanced physics with scrupulous clarity and simplicity, Strange Beauty is a tour-de-force of both science writing and biography.

More Than Nothing

Author : Aaron Sidney Wright
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190062800
Total Pages : 425 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book More Than Nothing written by Aaron Sidney Wright and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024-03-11 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Across decades and disciplines, More than Nothing offers a scoping history of the vacuum as a lens into the development of modern physics.

Building Theories

Author : David Danks
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319727877
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (197 download)

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Download or read book Building Theories written by David Danks and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-01-18 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores new findings on the long-neglected topic of theory construction and discovery, and challenges the orthodox, current division of scientific development into discrete stages: the stage of generation of new hypotheses; the stage of collection of relevant data; the stage of justification of possible theories; and the final stage of selection from among equally confirmed theories. The chapters, written by leading researchers, offer an interdisciplinary perspective on various aspects of the processes by which theories rationally should, and descriptively are, built. They address issues such as the role of problem-solving and heuristic reasoning in theory-building; how inferences and models shape the pursuit of scientific knowledge; the relation between problem-solving and scientific discovery; the relative values of the syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic view of theories in understanding theory construction; and the relation between ampliative inferences, heuristic reasoning, and models as a means for building new theories and knowledge. Through detailed arguments and examinations, the volume collectively challenges the orthodox view’s main tenets by characterizing the ways in which the different “stages” are logically, temporally, and psychologically intertwined. As a group, the chapters provide several attempts to answer long-standing questions about the possibility of a unified conceptual framework for building theories and formulating hypotheses.

Hadronic Matter

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Publisher : PediaPress
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 411 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hadronic Matter written by and published by PediaPress. This book was released on with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Heavy Flavour Physics Theory and Experimental Results in Heavy Quark Physics

Author : C.T.H Davies
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 0429525028
Total Pages : 415 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (295 download)

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Download or read book Heavy Flavour Physics Theory and Experimental Results in Heavy Quark Physics written by C.T.H Davies and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2019-03-29 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a thorough introduction to the phenomenology of heavy flavour physics, those working on the B-factories, LHCb, BTeV, HERA and the Tevatron. It explains how heavy quark theory could be implemented on the lattice, and discusses the status of CP-violation in the neutral kaon system.

Making 20th Century Science

Author : Stephen G. Brush
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199978158
Total Pages : 553 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (999 download)

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Download or read book Making 20th Century Science written by Stephen G. Brush and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2015 with total page 553 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historically, the scientific method has been said to require proposing a theory, making a prediction of something not already known, testing the prediction, and giving up the theory (or substantially changing it) if it fails the test. A theory that leads to several successful predictions is more likely to be accepted than one that only explains what is already known but not understood. This process is widely treated as the conventional method of achieving scientific progress, and was used throughout the twentieth century as the standard route to discovery and experimentation. But does science really work this way? In Making 20th Century Science, Stephen G. Brush discusses this question, as it relates to the development of science throughout the last century. Answering this question requires both a philosophically and historically scientific approach, and Brush blends the two in order to take a close look at how scientific methodology has developed. Several cases from the history of modern physical and biological science are examined, including Mendeleev's Periodic Law, Kekule's structure for benzene, the light-quantum hypothesis, quantum mechanics, chromosome theory, and natural selection. In general it is found that theories are accepted for a combination of successful predictions and better explanations of old facts. Making 20th Century Science is a large-scale historical look at the implementation of the scientific method, and how scientific theories come to be accepted.

Realism and Quantum Physics

Author : Evandro Agazzi
Publisher : Rodopi
ISBN 13 : 9789042002722
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (27 download)

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Download or read book Realism and Quantum Physics written by Evandro Agazzi and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 1997 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Evidence for the Top Quark

Author : Kent W. Staley
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521827102
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (271 download)

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Download or read book The Evidence for the Top Quark written by Kent W. Staley and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-04-05 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Evidence for the Top Quark offers both a historical and philosophical perspective on an important recent discovery in particle physics: the first evidence for the elementary particle known as the top quark. Drawing on published reports, oral histories, and internal documents from the large collaboration that performed the experiment, Kent Staley explores in detail the controversies and politics that surrounded this major scientific result.At the same time the book seeks to defend an objective theory of scientific evidence based on error probabilities.

Social Practices as Biological Niche Construction

Author : Joseph Rouse
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226827976
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (268 download)

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Download or read book Social Practices as Biological Niche Construction written by Joseph Rouse and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2023-08-17 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A broad, synthetic philosophy of nature focused on human sociality. In this book, Joseph Rouse takes his innovative work to the next level by articulating an integrated philosophy of society as part of nature. He shows how and why we ought to unite our biological conception of human beings as animals with our sociocultural and psychological conceptions of human beings as persons and acculturated agents. Rouse’s philosophy engages with biological understandings of human bodies and their environments as well as the diverse practices and institutions through which people live and engage with one another. Familiar conceptual separations of natural, social, and mental “worlds” did not arise by happenstance, he argues, but often for principled reasons that have left those divisions deeply entrenched in contemporary intellectual life. Those reasons are eroding in light of new developments across the disciplines, but that erosion has not been sufficient to produce more adequately integrated conceptual alternatives until now. Social Practices and Biological Niche Construction shows how the characteristic plasticity, plurality, and critical contestation of human ways of life can best be understood as evolved and evolving relations among human organisms and their distinctive biological environments. It also highlights the constitutive interdependence of those ways of life with many other organisms, from microbial populations to certain plants and animals, and explores the consequences of this in-depth, noting, for instance, how the integration of the natural and social also provides new insights on central issues in social theory, such as the body, language, normativity, and power.