No easy answers : science and the pursuit of knowledge / Allan Franklin.
Pubblicazione:
Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh press, c2005.
Descrizione fisica:
XII, 258 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
Contiene:
Indice: List of tables and figures. Preface. 1. Introduction. Pt. 1. Experiment: making or breaking theories: 2. The violation of parity conservation 3. The Meselson-Stahl experiment: the most beautiful experiment in biology 4. Emil Konopinski and the theory of [beta]-decay 5. The rise and fall of the fifth force. Pt. 2. The search for what is there: 6. The discovery of the electron 7. The road to the neutrino 8. How many neutrinos? 9. The appearance and diseappearance of the 17-keV neutrino 10. The missing solar neutrinos 11. Blas Cabrera and the search for magnetici monopoles. Pt. 3. The trouble with scientists: 12. Robert Millikan and the charge of the electron 13. The early searches for gravity waves 14. Atomic parity violation: do mutants die of natural causes? 15. Conclusion: no easy answers. Glossary. References. Index
