Exploring the invisible universe: from black holes to supestrings (Record no. 15900)
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| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9789814618670 |
| 037 ## - SOURCE OF ACQUISITION | |
| Terms of availability | Textbook |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE | |
| Original cataloging agency | CSL |
| Language of cataloging | eng |
| Transcribing agency | CSL |
| 041 ## - LANGUAGE CODE | |
| Language code of text/sound track or separate title | eng |
| 084 ## - COLON CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | B9 Q5 TC |
| Assigning agency | CSL |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Baaquie, Belal E. |
| 9 (RLIN) | 975369 |
| 245 #0 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Exploring the invisible universe: from black holes to supestrings |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. | |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc. | Singapore, |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. | World Scientific: |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. | 2015. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | xvi, 471p. |
| Other physical details | : ill. |
| 500 ## - GENERAL NOTE | |
| General note | Appendix 457-464p.; Index 465-471p. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | 'Why'? Why is the world, the Universe the way it is? Is space infinitely large? How small is small? What happens when one continues to divide matter into ever smaller pieces? Indeed, what is matter? Is there anything else besides what can be seen? Pursuing the questions employing the leading notions of physics, one soon finds that the tangible and visible world dissolves -- rather unexpectedly -- into invisible things and domains that are beyond direct perception. A remarkable feature of our Universe is that most of its constituents turn out to be invisible, and this fact is brought out with great force by this book.Exploring the Invisible Universe covers the gamut of topics in advanced modern physics and provides extensive and well substantiated answers to these questions and many more. Discussed in a non-technical, yet also non-trivial manner, are topics dominated by invisible things -- such as Black Holes and Superstrings as well as Fields, Gravitation, the Standard Model, Cosmology, Relativity, the Origin of Elements, Stars and Planetary Evolution, and more. Just giving the answer, as so many books do, is really not telling anything at all. To truly answer the 'why' questions of nature, one needs to follow the chain of reasoning that scientists have used to come to the conclusions they have. This book does not shy away from difficult-to-explain topics by reducing them to one-line answers and power phrases suitable for a popular talk show. The explanations are rigorous and straight to the point. This book is rarely mathematical without being afraid, however, to use elementary mathematics when called for. In order to achieve this, a large number of detailed figures, specially developed for this book and found nowhere else, convey insights that otherwise might either be inaccessible or need lengthy and difficult-to-follow explanations.After Exploring the Invisible Universe, a reader will have a deeper insight into our current understanding of the foundations of Nature and be able to answer all the questions above and then some. To understand Nature and the cutting edge ideas of contemporary physics, this is the book to have. |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Dark Universe |
| 9 (RLIN) | 975370 |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Elementary particles |
| 9 (RLIN) | 975371 |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Superstring gravity |
| 9 (RLIN) | 975372 |
| 700 ## - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Willeboordse, Frederick H. |
| 9 (RLIN) | 975373 |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) | |
| Classification part | B9 Q5 TC |
| Koha item type | Textbook |
| Source of classification or shelving scheme | Colon Classification (CC) |
| Suppress in OPAC | No |
| Withdrawn status | Lost status | Source of classification or shelving scheme | Damaged status | Not for loan | Home library | Current library | Date acquired | Source of acquisition | Total Checkouts | Full call number | Barcode | Date last seen | Price effective from | Koha item type |
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| Colon Classification (CC) | Central Science Library | Central Science Library | 2022-09-12 | 3414, 04/12/2015, Ashutosh Technical Books | B9 Q5 TC | SL1599903 | 2022-09-12 | 2022-09-12 | Textbook |