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Third thoughts / Steven Weinberg.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Weinberg, Steven, 1933-2021, author.
- Standardized Title:
- Essays. Selections
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Science.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2018.
- System Details:
- text file
- Contents:
- I. Science history: The uses of astronomy
- The art of discovery
- From Rutherford to the LHC
- Educators and academics, underground in Texas
- The rise of the standard models
- Long times and short times
- Keeping an eye on the present: Whig history of science
- The Whig history of science: an exchange
- II. Physics and cosmology: What is an elementary particle?
- The universe we still don't know
- Varieties of symmetry
- The Higgs, and beyond
- Why the Higgs?
- The trouble with quantum mechanics
- III. Public matters: Obama gets space funding right
- The crisis of big science
- Liberal disappointment
- Keep loopholes open
- Against manned space flight
- Skeptics and scientists
- IV. Personal matters: Change course
- Writing about science
- On being wrong
- The craft of science, and the craft of art
- New York to Austin, and return.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780674989740
- 0674989740
- Publisher Number:
- 99977500449
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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