The Particle Explosion

FROM THE BOOK: "If atoms could speak, what a tale they would tell. Some of the carbon atoms in the ink of this page, may once have been part of a dinosaur. Their atomic nuclei may have arrived in cosmic rays, having been fused from hydrogen and helium in distant, extinct stars. But whatever their various histories may be, one thing is certain. Most of their basic constituents, the fundamental particles, the electrons and quarks, have existed since the primordial Big Bang at the start of time. In recent years, physicists have learned to make these particles in the laboratory, and by studying them, they hope to learn about the origin of the Universe..."

Light sunning to flyleaf. Owner's bookplate on inside f. Cover, Softcoverwise a GEM!

pub date: 1987 publisher: Oxford University Press format: Hardcover ISBN: 198519656 sku: 2906 $3.95 (Qty avail: 1)