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Tunnel Visions

Author : Michael Riordan
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022630583X
Total Pages : 463 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (263 download)

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Download or read book Tunnel Visions written by Michael Riordan and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2015-11-20 with total page 463 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A detailed and engaging account of the development of the superconducting supercollider, one of the largest scientific undertakings in the United States.” —Journal of American History Starting in the 1950s, US physicists dominated the search for elementary particles; aided by the association of this research with national security, they held this position for decades. In an effort to maintain their hegemony and track down the elusive Higgs boson, they convinced President Reagan and Congress to support construction of the multibillion-dollar Superconducting Super Collider project in Texas—the largest basic-science project ever attempted. But after the Cold War ended and the estimated SSC cost surpassed ten billion dollars, Congress terminated the project in October 1993. Drawing on extensive archival research, contemporaneous press accounts, and over one hundred interviews with scientists, engineers, government officials, and others involved, Tunnel Visions tells the riveting story of the aborted SSC project. The authors examine the complex, interrelated causes for its demise, including problems of large-project management, continuing cost overruns, and lack of foreign contributions. In doing so, they ask whether Big Science has become too large and expensive, including whether academic scientists and their government overseers can effectively manage such an enormous undertaking. “Focusing on the scientific, technical, and political conflicts that led to delays, ever rising costs, and eventually the SSC’s cancelation by Congress, Tunnel Visions is a true techno-thriller.” —Burton Richter, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics “Most good science stories are tales of discovery and success, but failure can be just as riveting. Here two historians and an archivist describe the greatest particle physics experiment that never was.” —Scientific American

Einstein's Bridge

Author : John Cramer
Publisher : Baen Books
ISBN 13 : 1625799268
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (257 download)

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Download or read book Einstein's Bridge written by John Cramer and published by Baen Books. This book was released on 2023-05-02 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Somewhere in the Multiverse, in a lab distant from the Makers’ Planet, Tunnel Maker, Creator of Bridges, answers an alarm. His inter-universe probe is detecting signals from another bubble universe, indicating that some new high-intelligence alien species is doing high-energy physics and creating hyperdimensional signals. Tunnel Maker knows that, in another bubble universe, the predatory Hive Mind should be receiving the same signals. It is time to make a Bridge . . . George Griffin, experimental physicist working at the newly-operational Superconducting Super Collider (SSC), observes a proton-proton collision that doesn’t make sense. He chases it down and discovers a Bridgehead, a wormhole link to the Makers’ universe. With help from theorist Roger Coulton and writer Alice Lancaster, he establishes communication with the Makers, only to learn that a Hive invasion of Earth is imminent. As the Hive invasion is destroying humanity, by wormhole the Makers transport George and Roger back to 1987, where they must undertake the task of manipulating the Reagan, Bush, and Clinton administrations to change the future and prevent construction of the SSC. At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management).

The Large Hadron Collider

Author : Lyndon R. Evans
Publisher : EPFL Press
ISBN 13 : 9782940222346
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (223 download)

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Download or read book The Large Hadron Collider written by Lyndon R. Evans and published by EPFL Press. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the technology and engineering of the Large Hadron collider (LHC), one of the greatest scientific marvels of this young 21st century. This book traces the feat of its construction, written by the head scientists involved, placed into the context of the scientific goals and principles.

The Superconducting Super Collider Project

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science, Space, and Technology
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Superconducting Super Collider Project written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science, Space, and Technology and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Hole in Texas

Author : Herman Wouk
Publisher : Little, Brown
ISBN 13 : 0759510660
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (595 download)

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Download or read book A Hole in Texas written by Herman Wouk and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2004-04-13 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With this rollicking novel hailed equally for its satiric bite, its lightly borne scientific savvy, and its tender compassion for foible-prone humanity, one of America's preeminent storytellers returns to fiction. Guy Carpenter is a regular guy, a family man, an obscure NASA scientist, when he is jolted out of his quiet life and summoned to the corridors of power in Washington, D.C. Through a turn of events as unlikely as it is inevitable, Guy finds himself compromised by scandal and romance, hounded by Hollywood, and agonizingly alone at the white-hot center of a firestorm ignited as three potent forces of American culture -- politics, big science, and the media -- spectacularly collide.

The God Particle

Author : Leon M. Lederman
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780618711680
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (116 download)

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Download or read book The God Particle written by Leon M. Lederman and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2006 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating tour of particle physics from Nobel Prize winner Leon Lederman. At the root of particle physics is an invincible sense of curiosity. Leon Lederman embraces this spirit of inquiry as he moves from the Greeks' earliest scientific observations to Einstein and beyond to chart this unique arm of scientific study. His survey concludes with the Higgs boson, nicknamed the God Particle, which scientists hypothesize will help unlock the last secrets of the subatomic universe, quarks and all--it's the dogged pursuit of this almost mystical entity that inspires Lederman's witty and accessible history.

The Story of the Texas National Research Laboratory Commission and the Superconducting Super Collider

Author : Peter Flawn
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781970007282
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (72 download)

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Download or read book The Story of the Texas National Research Laboratory Commission and the Superconducting Super Collider written by Peter Flawn and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Particle at the End of the Universe

Author : Sean Carroll
Publisher : Dutton
ISBN 13 : 0142180300
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (421 download)

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Download or read book The Particle at the End of the Universe written by Sean Carroll and published by Dutton. This book was released on 2013-08-27 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Higgs boson ... is the key to understanding why mass exists and how atoms are possible. After billions of dollars and decades of effort by more than six thousand researchers at the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland--a doorway is opening into the mind-boggling world of dark matter and beyond. Caltech physicist and acclaimed writer Sean Carroll explains both the importance of the Higgs boson and the ultimately human story behind the greatest scientific achievement of our time"--Publisher

The Superconducting Super Collider Project

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science, Space, and Technology
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Superconducting Super Collider Project written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science, Space, and Technology and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Facing Up

Author : Steven Weinberg
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674066405
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book Facing Up written by Steven Weinberg and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2012-03-01 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New York Times’s James Glanz has called Steven Weinberg “perhaps the world’s most authoritative proponent of the idea that physics is hurtling toward a ‘final theory,’ a complete explanation of nature’s particles and forces that will endure as the bedrock of all science forevermore. He is also a powerful writer of prose that can illuminate—and sting... He recently received the Lewis Thomas Prize, awarded to the researcher who best embodies ‘the scientist as poet.’” Both the brilliant scientist and the provocative writer are fully present in this book as Weinberg pursues his principal passions, theoretical physics and a deeper understanding of the culture, philosophy, history, and politics of science.Each of these essays, which span fifteen years, struggles in one way or another with the necessity of facing up to the discovery that the laws of nature are impersonal, with no hint of a special status for human beings. Defending the spirit of science against its cultural adversaries, these essays express a viewpoint that is reductionist, realist, and devoutly secular. Each is preceded by a new introduction that explains its provenance and, if necessary, brings it up to date. Together, they afford the general reader the unique pleasure of experiencing the superb sense, understanding, and knowledge of one of the most interesting and forceful scientific minds of our era.

An Introduction to Quantitative Finance

Author : Stephen Blyth
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199666598
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (996 download)

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Download or read book An Introduction to Quantitative Finance written by Stephen Blyth and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2014 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The quantitative nature of complex financial transactions makes them a fascinating subject area for mathematicians of all types. This book gives an insight into financial engineering while building on introductory probability courses by detailing one of the most fascinating applications of the subject.

Big Science

Author : Michael Hiltzik
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1451675763
Total Pages : 528 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (516 download)

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Download or read book Big Science written by Michael Hiltzik and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A heroic time -- South Dakota boy -- "I'm going to be famous" -- Shims and sealing wax -- Oppie -- The deuton affair -- The cyclotron republic -- John Lawrence's mice -- Laureate -- Mr. Loomis -- "Ernest, are you ready?" -- The racetrack -- Oak Ridge -- The road to Trinity -- The postwar bonanza -- Oaths and loyalties -- The shadow of the Super -- Livermore -- The Oppenheimer affair -- The return of small science -- The "clean bomb" -- Element 103.

Challenges and Goals for Accelerators in the XXI Century

Author : Oliver Brning
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 9814436402
Total Pages : 855 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (144 download)

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Download or read book Challenges and Goals for Accelerators in the XXI Century written by Oliver Brning and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2015 with total page 855 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The past 100 years of accelerator-based research have led the field from first insights into the structure of atoms to the development and confirmation of the Standard Model of physics. Accelerators have been a key tool in developing our understanding of the elementary particles and the forces that govern their interactions. This book describes the past 100 years of accelerator development with a special focus on the technological advancements in the field, the connection of the various accelerator projects to key developments and discoveries in the Standard Model, how accelerator technologies open the door to other applications in medicine and industry, and finally presents an outlook of future accelerator projects for the coming decades."--Provided by publisher.

Superconducting Super Collider

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science, Space, and Technology
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1088 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (121 download)

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Download or read book Superconducting Super Collider written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science, Space, and Technology and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 1088 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Department of Energy's Superconducting Super Collider Project

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Subcommittee on Energy Research and Development
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Department of Energy's Superconducting Super Collider Project written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Subcommittee on Energy Research and Development and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Superconducting Super Collider

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science, Space, and Technology
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1090 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Superconducting Super Collider written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science, Space, and Technology and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 1090 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Monsters

Author : Edward Regis
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 0465061605
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (65 download)

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Download or read book Monsters written by Edward Regis and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2015-09-08 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Oh, the humanity!" Radio reporter Herbert Morrison's words on witnessing the destruction of the Hindenburg are etched in our collective memory. Yet, while the Hindenburg -- like the Titanic -- is a symbol of the technological hubris of a bygone era, we seem to have forgotten the lessons that can be learned from the infamous 1937 zeppelin disaster. Zeppelins were steerable balloons of highly flammable, explosive gas, but the sheer magic of seeing one of these behemoths afloat in the sky cast an irresistible spell over all those who saw them. In Monsters, Ed Regis explores the question of how a technology now so completely invalidated (and so fundamentally unsafe) ever managed to reach the high-risk level of development that it did. Through the story of the zeppelin's development, Regis examines the perils of what he calls "pathological technologies" -- inventions whose sizeable risks are routinely minimized as a result of their almost mystical allure. Such foolishness is not limited to the industrial age: newer examples of pathological technologies include the US government's planned use of hydrogen bombs for large-scale geoengineering projects; the phenomenally risky, expensive, and ultimately abandoned Superconducting Super Collider; and the exotic interstellar propulsion systems proposed for DARPA's present-day 100 Year Starship project. In case after case, the romantic appeal of foolishly ambitious technologies has blinded us to their shortcomings, dangers, and costs. Both a history of technological folly and a powerful cautionary tale for future technologies and other grandiose schemes, Monsters is essential reading for experts and citizens hoping to see new technologies through clear eyes.