Strange matters : undiscovered ideas at the frontiers of space and time / Tom Siegfried ; illustration by Matthew Frey.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Siegfried, Tom, 1950- author.

Contributor:

Frey, Matthew, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cosmology.

Physics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (317 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Washington, District of Columbia : Joseph Henry Press, 2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Scientists studying the universe find strange things in two places--out in space and in their heads. This is the story of how the most imaginative physicists of our time perceive strange features of the universe in advance of the actual discoveries. Strange Matters artfully mixes the present with the past and future, reporting from the frontiers of research where history is in the process of being made.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: PART ONE

STRANGE MATTERS

1 Strange Matter 13

From Gell-Mann and Quarks to the Searchfor Quark Nuggets

2 Mirror Matter 35

From Dirac and Antimatter to the "Mirror World"

3 Super Matter 61

From Noethers Symmetry Theorem to Superparticles

4 Dark Matter 87

From Pauli and the Neutrino to the Universe's Missing Mass

PART TWO

STRANGE FRONTIERS

5 The Best of all Possible Bubbles 111

From Friedmann and Cosmic Expansion to the Multiverse

6 The Essence of Quintessence 138

From Einstein's Greatest Mistake to the Universe' Accelerating Expansion

7 Superstrings 160

From Maxwell and Electromagnetic Waves to a World Made of Strings

PART THREE

STRANGE IDEAS

8 Stretching Your Brane 185

From Schwarzschild and Black Holes to New Dimensions of Space

9 Ghosts 214

From Riemann and the Geometry of Space to the Shape of the Universe

10 The Two-Timing Universe 235

From Einstein and Slow Clocks to a Second Dimension of Time.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-280-20958-5

9786610209583

0-309-50058-3

OCLC:

52779085