A Thin Cosmic Rain : : Particles from Outer Space / / Michael W. Friedlander.
Enigmatic for many years, cosmic rays are now known to be not rays at all, but particles, the nuclei of atoms, raining down continually on the earth, where they can be detected throughout the atmosphere and sometimes even thousands of feet underground. This book tells the long-running detective stor...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP e-dition: American History eBook Package |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2013] ©2000 |
| Year of Publication: | 2013 |
| Edition: | Reprint 2014 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (241 p.) :; 43 halftones, 30 line illustrations, 7 tables |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- 1 THE EARLY DAYS
- 2 IDENTIFYING COSMIC RAYS
- 3 THE EARTH'S MAGNETIC INFLUENCE
- 4 PARTICLES FROM THE SUN
- 5 COSMIC RAYS IN THE GALAXY
- 6 THE ENERGY SPECTRUM
- 7 ULTRA-HIGH ENERGIES
- 8 NUCLEAR CLUES
- 9 THE ORIGIN OF COSMIC RAYS
- 10 COSMIC ELECTRONS AND GAMMA RAYS
- 11 COSMIC NEUTRINOS
- 12 THE SUBNUCLEAR WORLD
- 13 FOOTPRINTS AND SOUVENIRS
- 14 EPILOGUE
- WORKS CITED
- BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- INDEX