Taming the Atom: The Emergence of the Visible Microworld

Hans Christian Von Baeyer

ISBN 10: 0140156216 / ISBN 13: 9780140156218

Verlag: Penguin, 1994

Beschreibung

368 pages. cover worn & marked, name ffep, While the quantum theory of the internal structure of atoms remains a matter of theory, inaccessible to everyday experience, atoms themselves have become inc reasingly tangible and perceptible in recent years. The invention of the scannin.

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Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Taming the Atom: The Emergence of the Visible Microworld
• Verlag: Penguin
• Erscheinungsjahr: 1994
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 0140156216
• ISBN-13: 9780140156218
• Einband: Paperback
• Zustand: Good
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Inhaltsangabe

While the quantum theory of the internal structure of atoms remains a matter of theory, inaccessible to everyday experience, atoms themselves have become increasingly tangible and perceptible in recent years. The invention of the scanning-tunnelling microscope has made it possible to photograph them, and atomic traps are making it possible to isolate individual atoms in ways that are vastly increasing our understanding of their behaviour. Much recent science writing has concentrated on the far reaches of theory - particle physics, quantum theory and cosmology. In this book Von Baeyer shows how this links into the world we inhabit and how electron clouds and probability waves add up to the physical, tangible world of objects.