Books by Jim Baggott
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review 1: This is an engrossing read, and clearer (to me, at least) than the previously read Making of the Atomic Bomb, by Richard Rhodes, which is the measuring stick by which all A-Bomb books might be measured.The facts and theories are a little more "dumbed-down" and as such, more acces...
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review 1: A good description how quantum physics evolved up till now.The masses of the quarks are quite smalls, accounting for just one per cent of the mass of a proton or neutron. The other 99-precent is derived from the energy carried by the massless gluons, which flit between quarks and...
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review 1: Not a bad book, but I don't feel it will stand the test of time once the current excitement over the discovery of the Higgs boson is over.It makes a good start with a discussion of Noether's Theorem about the connections between conservation laws and symmetries, but the discussio...