Author(s): E. I. Parnov
Publisher: Mir Publishers
Language: English
City: Moscow
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CONTENTS
Face to Face with the Universe
PART ONE Looking Back
THE SOURCES
THE DAWN OF NATURAL PHILOSOPHY
THE DOWNWARD ROAD
ON THE FUNDAMENTALS OF ALCHEMY AND THE HARM OF DEIFICATION
THE DARKNESS DEEPENS BEFORE THE DAWN, BUT IT ALSO PALES BEFORE THE DAWN
THE FIRST RELATIVITY PRINCIPLE
THE DARK AGES TO THE TWENTIETH CENTURY— A DIGRESSION
HAIL, SCEPTIC!
THE GREAT LAW AND THE END OF NATURAL PHILOSOPHY
FROM DEMOCRITUS’ ATOMS TO THE FIRST ELEMENTARY PARTICLE
AN INDICTMENT OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY
REVOLT AGAINST SELF-EVIDENCE
THE ETHER. ITS HEYDAY AND DECLINE
PART TWO Building Blocks of the Universe
FIRST ABORIGINE OF THE MICROWORLD
ENTER THE NUCLEUS
THE SECOND "BUILDING BLOCK”
“NITROGEN CATASTROPHE ", AND MORE TO COME
THE NEUTRON DISCOVERED
FIRST ACQUAINTANCE W ITH SPACE-TIME
BRIEF EXTRACTS FROM THE CODE OF STRANGENESS
A DROP IN “DIRAC’S OCEAN"
THE ELUSIVE NEUTRINO
COSMIC WANDERERS
PARTICLES IN CROSS-SECTION
PSEUDO-ATOMS
NUCLEAR MAGIC
NUCLEAR MOLECULES
NUCLEAR MODELS
THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS
ANTIMATTER
TWO PAIRS OF GHOSTS
CURIOUSER AND CURIOUSER
DOUBLETS, TRIPLETS, MULTIPLETS
THE LAW OF STRANGENESS
THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS
SAVE SYMMETRY AT ALL COSTS
NATURE INSISTS ON ITS OWN
THE MUON: AN ELECTRON RUN AMOK?
TABLETS OF TH E MICROWORLD
PART THREE At the Threshold of a Unified Theory
TOWARD THE FOUNDATIONS OF WORLD UNITY
NOT ELEMENTARY AND NOT A PARTICLE
WHAT IS "ELEMENTARY”?
IDEAS OF NATURAL PHILOSOPHERS IN TERMS OF TENSORS AND MATRICES
ARE SPACE AND TIME DISCRETE?
PARTICLES AS CURVED SPACE?
INVASION OF RESONANCES
ALL WAYS LEAD TO THE “EIGHTFOLD WAY”
ENTER THE QUARK
PART FOUR Space. Time. Vacuum
VON LAUE: “NOTHING INTRIGUES MAN MORE THAN THE PROPERTIES OF SPACE AND T IME”
A FLAT WORLD AND THE FOURTH DIMENSION
MODELS OF THE UNIVERSE
THE PRIMEVAL ATOM AND BALLOON UNIVERSE
THE REMARKABLE POPULATION OF VACUUM
FOSTER PARTICLES, FROM THE PHYSICO-LEGAL ASPECT
GRAVITATION OF DREAMS AND REALITY
AND NOW THE MONOPOLE
CREATIVE VACUUM
PART FIVE The Megaworld
THE STARS LOOK DOWN
EXPLODING STARS
NEUTRON STARS
WITNESSES OF COSMIC CATASTROPHES
GAS ACCELERATORS OF THE COSMOS
THE WORLD THAT SIDE OF THE VACUUM
TOWARD THE NEUTRINO TELESCOPE
THE MEGAWORLD
ARCHIPELAGOS OF ISLAND UNIVERSES
NEWTON’S LAW OR METAGALACTIC FORCES?
TRACES OF PRESTELLAR MATTER
BRIGHTER THAN A MILLION SUNS!
GRAVITATIONAL GRAVES
WITNESSES OF THE BIRTH OF THE UNIVERSE
GALACTIC EXPLOSIONS
PART SIX The Universe And Infinity
A LONG DIGRESSION ON THE SUBJECT OF TIME-REVERSAL
INFINITY AND SPATIO-TEMPORAL TWIST
SOME CLARIFICATIONS CONCERNING FINALITY AND INFINITY
THE SUPERDENSE “BOMB”
ANTIWORLD: BORN THE SAME DAY, THE SAME HOUR
THE INEXHAUSTIBLE UNIVERSE
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