A Whirlwind History of the Universe and Mankind: From the Big Bang to the Higgs Boson
暫譯: 宇宙與人類的旋風歷史:從大爆炸到希格斯玻色子

Sanford, Thomas

  • 出版商: Springer
  • 出版日期: 2024-06-19
  • 售價: $1,910
  • 貴賓價: 9.5$1,814
  • 語言: 英文
  • 頁數: 235
  • 裝訂: Quality Paper - also called trade paper
  • ISBN: 9819726735
  • ISBN-13: 9789819726738
  • 相關分類: 物理學 Physics
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商品描述

This book is an essential read for everyone who is curious about how we humans came to exist and interested in understanding the science and social evolution that enabled us to establish that a Big Bang actually happened. The text uniquely explains the transitions between the various evolutionary plateaus: from the universe's beginning in the Big Bang, to the emergence of Homo sapiens, highlighting the Mediterranean civilizations of Greece and Rome, the European Renaissance, the English industrial revolution, and the early European science discoveries, particularly those in physics, to the American Manhattan Project and the subsequent development of the new field of high-energy particle physics. This entire route, which eventually culminated in the discovery of the mass-giving Higgs boson, is clearly articulated in this monumental but concise work.

商品描述(中文翻譯)

這本書是每個對人類如何存在感到好奇,以及對理解使我們能夠確定大爆炸實際發生的科學和社會演變感興趣的人的必讀之作。文本獨特地解釋了各種演化高原之間的過渡:從宇宙在大爆炸中的開始,到智人(Homo sapiens)的出現,突顯了希臘和羅馬的地中海文明、歐洲文藝復興、英國工業革命,以及早期的歐洲科學發現,特別是在物理學方面,直到美國的曼哈頓計畫及隨後高能粒子物理學新領域的發展。這整個過程最終以質量賦予的希格斯玻色子(Higgs boson)的發現作為高潮,這一切在這部宏大而簡潔的著作中得到了清晰的闡述。

作者簡介

Thomas Sanford received his Ph.D. in physics from Columbia University under the guidance of Nobel Laureate Leon Lederman in 1972. Following his graduation, he conducted high-energy physics experiments at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in England, the CERN (European Council for Nuclear Research) Laboratory in Switzerland, and the Brookhaven National Laboratory in New York, participating in the discovery of the charm quark. In 1982, he joined Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, New Mexico as a senior member of technical staff, and became a distinguished member in 1991, where he engineered a break-through in the physics of Z-pinches, opening wire arrays as possible drivers for inertial confinement fusion. In 2000, he became a fellow of the American Physical Society and in 2005 was awarded the Hannes Alfven Prize by the European Physical Society. He is retired from the Sandia National Laboratories, and currently lives in Albuquerque.

作者簡介(中文翻譯)

托馬斯·桑福德(Thomas Sanford)於1972年在哥倫比亞大學(Columbia University)獲得物理學博士學位,指導教授為諾貝爾獎得主利昂·萊德曼(Leon Lederman)。畢業後,他在英國的拉塞福-阿普頓實驗室(Rutherford Appleton Laboratory)、瑞士的歐洲核子研究組織(CERN)實驗室以及紐約的布魯克海文國家實驗室(Brookhaven National Laboratory)進行高能物理實驗,參與了魅夸克(charm quark)的發現。1982年,他加入位於新墨西哥州阿爾伯克基的桑迪亞國家實驗室(Sandia National Laboratories),擔任高級技術人員,並於1991年成為傑出成員,在Z-夾擊(Z-pinches)物理學方面取得突破,開發了線圈陣列作為慣性約束融合(inertial confinement fusion)的可能驅動器。2000年,他成為美國物理學會(American Physical Society)的會士,並於2005年獲得歐洲物理學會(European Physical Society)頒發的哈尼斯·阿爾芬獎(Hannes Alfven Prize)。他已從桑迪亞國家實驗室退休,目前居住在阿爾伯克基。