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This monograph presents thirty research papers dealing with the
classification of strongly interacting particles and their
interaction according to the eightfold way. In each chapter the
authors' commentary introduces the reprints.
This monograph presents thirty research papers dealing with the
classification of strongly interacting particles and their
interaction according to the eightfold way. In each chapter the
authors' commentary introduces the reprints.
From Internet-dating profiles to Native American folktales to the
photo trickery of Hollywood gossip magazines, this volume explores
deception and offers insights from leading figures in disparate
fields, drawing out surprising commonalities. For the first time,
one broadly accessible volume pulls together classic philosophical
debates on deception with examinations of contemporary issues,
including stock market fraud and terrorism. "Deception" offers a
unique perspective on the state of the art: readers will find
scholars from biology and physics in conversation with experts in
mass media and culture, and archaeologists engaged with ideas from
military strategists.
As the essays make clear, deception touches virtually every aspect
of our lives; in fact, recent psychological research suggests that
we each tell at least two to three lies per day. Throughout the
animal kingdom, survival and reproduction depend upon successful
deceptions.
But while deception has captured the interest of philosophers,
scientists, warriors, and artists over thousands of years, our
knowledge of the subject is limited. At the same time, new
technologies have made deception more commonplace, more dangerous,
and more difficult to detect than ever. "Deception" is a
particularly timely and insightful work. Its scope and subject make
it compelling reading for a broad readership.
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Last of the Curlews (Paperback)
Fred Bodsworth; Foreword by W.S. Merwin; Afterword by Murray Gell-Mann; Illustrated by Abigail Rorer
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In this conservation classic, originally published fifty-five years
ago, Fred Bodsworth tells the story of a solitary Eskimo curlew's
perilous migration and search for a mate. The lone survivor comes
to stand for the entirety of a species on the brink of extinction,
and for all in nature that is endangered. This new paperback
edition includes a foreword by Pulitzer Prize-winning poet W.S.
Merwin and an afterword by Nobel Prize-winning physicist Murray
Gell-Mann.
In "A Brief History of Time" Stephen Hawking described our attempts
to formulate the physical laws of the universe. In this work, Nobel
Laureate, Gell-Mann, argues that this is only the beginning of what
we need to know about our world and ourselves. What if we know
those laws? What next? Seeking a unified theory of all matter,
whether it is the structure of galaxies or the moment of creative
thought in the human mind, this book defines the underlying unity
in such diverse fields as linguistics, archaeology, economics and
politics.
From one of the architects of the new science of simplicity and
complexity comes a highly personal, unifying vision of the natural
world. As a theoretical physicist, Murray Gell-Mann has explored
nature at its most fundamental level. His achievements include the
1969 Nobel Prize for work leading up to his discovery of the quark
- the basic building block of all atomic nuclei throughout the
universe. But Gell-Mann is a man of many intellectual passions,
with lifelong interests in fields that seek to understand existence
at its most complex: natural history, biological evolution, the
history of language, and the study of creative thinking. These
seemingly disparate pursuits come together in Gell-Mann's current
work at the Santa Fe Institute, where scientists are investigating
the similarities and differences among complex adaptive systems -
systems that learn or evolve by utilizing acquired information.
They include a child learning his or her native language, a strain
of bacteria becoming resistant to an antibiotic, the scientific
community testing new theories, or an artist implementing a
creative idea. The Quark and the Jaguar is Gell-Mann's own story of
finding the connections between the basic laws of physics and the
complexity and diversity of the natural world. The simple: a quark
inside an atom. The complex: a jaguar prowling its jungle territory
in the night. Exploring the relationship between them becomes a
series of exciting intellectual adventures.
'Harald Fritzsch and Murray Gell-Mann, the two fathers of quantum
chromodynamics, look back at the events that led to the discovery,
and eventually acceptance, of quarks as constituent particles ...
it is always worthwhile to reminisce about those times when
theoretical physicists were truly eclectic, these stories are the
testimony of a very active era, in which theoretical and
experimental discoveries rapidly chased one another ... Of central
importance now is the understanding of the composition of our
universe, the dark matter and dark energy, the hierarchy of masses
and forces, and a consistent quantum framework of unification of
all forces of nature, including gravity. The closing contributions
of the book put this venture in the context of today's high-energy
physics programme, and make a connection to the most popular ideas
in high-energy physics today, including supersymmetry, unification
and string theory.'CERN CourierToday it is known that the atomic
nuclei are composed of smaller constituents, the quarks. A quark is
always bound with two other quarks, forming a baryon or with an
antiquark, forming a meson. The quark model was first postulated in
1964 by Murray Gell-Mann - who coined the name "quark" from James
Joyce's novel Finnegans Wake - and by George Zweig, who then worked
at CERN. In the present theory of strong interactions - Quantum
Chromodynamics proposed by H Fritzsch and Gell-Mann in 1972 - the
forces that bind the quarks together are due to the exchange of
eight gluons.On the 50th anniversary of the quark model, this
invaluable volume looks back at the developments and achievements
in the elementary particle physics that eventuated from that
beautiful model. Written by an international team of distinguished
physicists, each of whom have made major developments in the field,
the volume provides an essential overview of the present state to
the academics and researchers.
'Harald Fritzsch and Murray Gell-Mann, the two fathers of quantum
chromodynamics, look back at the events that led to the discovery,
and eventually acceptance, of quarks as constituent particles ...
it is always worthwhile to reminisce about those times when
theoretical physicists were truly eclectic, these stories are the
testimony of a very active era, in which theoretical and
experimental discoveries rapidly chased one another ... Of central
importance now is the understanding of the composition of our
universe, the dark matter and dark energy, the hierarchy of masses
and forces, and a consistent quantum framework of unification of
all forces of nature, including gravity. The closing contributions
of the book put this venture in the context of today's high-energy
physics programme, and make a connection to the most popular ideas
in high-energy physics today, including supersymmetry, unification
and string theory.'CERN CourierToday it is known that the atomic
nuclei are composed of smaller constituents, the quarks. A quark is
always bound with two other quarks, forming a baryon or with an
antiquark, forming a meson. The quark model was first postulated in
1964 by Murray Gell-Mann - who coined the name "quark" from James
Joyce's novel Finnegans Wake - and by George Zweig, who then worked
at CERN. In the present theory of strong interactions - Quantum
Chromodynamics proposed by H Fritzsch and Gell-Mann in 1972 - the
forces that bind the quarks together are due to the exchange of
eight gluons.On the 50th anniversary of the quark model, this
invaluable volume looks back at the developments and achievements
in the elementary particle physics that eventuated from that
beautiful model. Written by an international team of distinguished
physicists, each of whom have made major developments in the field,
the volume provides an essential overview of the present state to
the academics and researchers.
A great variety of complex phenomena in many scientific fields
exhibit power-law behaviour, reflecting a hierarchical or fractal
structure. Many of these phenomena seem to be susceptible to
description using approaches drawn from thermodynamics or
statistical mechanics, particularly approaches involving the
maximization of entropy. During recent years a good deal of study
has been devoted to a nonextensive generalizations of entropy and
of Boltzmann-Gibbs statistical mechanics and standard laws in a
natural way. The book addresses the interdisciplinary applications
of these ideas, and also on various phenomena that could possibly
be quantitatively describable in terms of these ideas.
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