Critical Problems in Physics / / ed. by Val L. Fitch, Margit A.E. Dementi, Daniel R. Marlow.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999
• MitwirkendeR: Damour, Thibault,; Fitch, Val,; Gallardo, J. C.,; Hillman, Bruce J.,; Hopfield, John J.,; Langer, J. S.,; Palmer, R. B.,; Perkins, D. H.,; Ramakrishnan, T. V.,; Steinhardt, Paul J.,; Swinney, Harry L.,; Thorne, Kip S.,; Tollestrup, Alvin,; Treiman, Sam,; Wilczek, Frank,; Witten, Edward,
• HerausgeberIn: Dementi, Margit A.E.,; Fitch, Val L.,; Marlow, Daniel R.,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2022]; ©1998
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Princeton Series in Physics ; 34
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (301 p.)

The past century has seen fantastic advances in physics, from the discovery of the electron, x-rays, and radioactivity, to the era of incredible solid state devices, computers, quarks and leptons, and the standard model. But what of the next? Many scientists think we are on the threshold of an even...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• CONTENTS
• PREFACE
• 1 THE 1946 CONFERENCE: THEN AND NOW
• 2 NONEQUILIBRIUM PHYSICS
• 3 DYNAMICS, COMPUTATION, AND NEUROBIOLOGY
• 4 EMERGENCE AND EVOLUTION OF PATTERNS
• 5 HIGH TEMPERATURE SUPERCONDUCTORS
• 6 THE ONGOING REVOLUTION IN MEDICAL IMAGING
• 7 COSMOLOGICAL CHALLENGES FOR THE 21ST CENTURY
• 8 GRAVITATION AND EXPERIMENT
• 9 GRAVITATIONAL WAVES
• 10 NEUTRINO OSCILLATIONS
• 11 THE TEVATRON
• 12 HIGH ENERGY COLLIDERS
• 13 VISTAS IN THEORETICAL PHYSICS
• 14 THE FUTURE OF PARTICLE PHYSICS AS A NATURAL SCIENCE