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The End of Timeby Julian Barbour
Oxford University Press, USA 2000; US$ 21.95Richard Feynman once quipped that "Time is what happens when nothing else does." But Julian Barbour disagrees: if nothing happened, if nothing changed, then time would stop. For time is nothing but change. It is change that we perceive occurring all around us, not time. Put simply, time does not exist. In this highly provocative volume, Barbour presents the basic evidence for a timeless universe, and shows why we still experience the world as intensely temporal. It is a book that strikes at the heart of modern physics. It casts doubt on Einstein's greatest contribution, the spacetime continuum, but also points to the solution of one of the great paradoxes of modern science, the chasm between classical and quantum physics. Indeed,... more...
Deformed Spacetimeby Fabio Cardone; Roberto Mignani
Springer 2007; US$ 219.00This volume provides a detailed discussion of the mathematical aspects and the physical applications of a new geometrical structure of space-time, based on a generalization ("deformation") of the usual Minkowski space, as supposed to be endowed with a metric whose coefficients depend on the energy. Such a formalism (Deformed Special Relativity, DSR) allows one to account for breakdown of local Lorentz invariance in the usual, special-relativistic meaning (however, Lorentz invariance is recovered in a generalized sense) to provide an effective geometrical description of the four fundamental interactions (electromagnetic, weak, strong and gravitational) Moreover, the four-dimensional energy-dependent space-time is just a manifestation... more...
A First Course in General Relativityby Bernard Schutz
Cambridge University Press 2009; US$ 60.00Second edition of a widely-used textbook providing the first step into general relativity for undergraduate students with minimal mathematical background. more...
It's About Timeby N. David Mermin
Princeton University Press 2009; US$ 45.00In It's About Time , N. David Mermin asserts that relativity ought to be an important part of everyone's education--after all, it is largely about time, a subject with which all are familiar. The book reveals that some of our most intuitive notions about time are shockingly wrong, and that the real nature of time discovered by Einstein can be rigorously explained without advanced mathematics. This readable exposition of the nature of time as addressed in Einstein's theory of relativity is accessible to anyone who remembers a little high school algebra and elementary plane geometry. The book evolved as Mermin taught the subject to diverse groups of undergraduates at Cornell University, none of them science majors, over three and a half decades.... more...
Relativity In Our Timeby Mendel Sachs
CRC Press 1993; US$ 52.95A publication concerning the relevance of Einstein's theory of relativity to human relations in contemporary times. more...
Nanostructured Silicon-based Powders and Compositesby Andre Pierre Legrand; Christine Senemaud
CRC Press 2002; US$ 109.95Nanomaterials are materials with a characteristic length scale (particle diameter, grain size) or less than 100 nanometers. The use of nanoparticles aims to take advantage of their better or even different properties as compared to bulk behaviour (confinement effect, larger surface area to volume ratio). At first nanomaterials were used as catalysts and pigments, but now their mechanical, optical, electric and biological properties of silicon based nanostructures at all stages of the process, from the synthesis of nanopowders to the final material. more...
Spin Glassesby J. A. Mydosh
CRC Press 1993; US$ 139.95An introduction to the phenomenon and physics of spin glasses using an experimental approach. The book describes spin glasses as a state of magnetic ordering in third place after ferromagnetism and antiferromagnetism. more...
Critical Pointby C. Domb; Michael Fisher
CRC Press 1996; US$ 159.95Provides an historical account of the theoretical explanations of critical phenomena which ultimately led to one of the major triumphs of statistical mechanics in the 20th Century and led to the winning of the Nobel Prize for Physics. more...
Metal-Insulator Transitionsby the late Sir Nevill Mott
CRC Press 1990; US$ 142.00This is the second edition of a book first published in 1974. Since then, understanding of the Anderson transition has been completely transformed by the scaling theory of Abrahams et al 1979. more...
Handbook of Infrared Spectroscopy of Ultrathin Filmsby Valeri P. Tolstoy; Irina Chernyshova; Valeri A. Skryshevsky
John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2003; US$ 385.00Because of the rapid increase in commercially available Fourier transform infrared spectrometers and computers over the past ten years, it has now become feasible to use IR spectrometry to characterize very thin films at extended interfaces. At the same time, interest in thin films has grown tremendously because of applications in microelectronics, sensors, catalysis, and nanotechnology. The Handbook of Infrared Spectroscopy of Ultrathin Films provides a practical guide to experimental methods, up-to-date theory, and considerable reference data, critical for scientists who want to measure and interpret IR spectra of ultrathin films. This authoritative volume also: Offers information needed to effectively apply IR spectroscopy to the analysis... more...