LEADER 04519nam 2200649Ia 450 001 9910784990003321 005 20230828224551.0 010 $a1-281-91920-9 010 $a9786611919207 010 $a981-277-396-7 035 $a(CKB)1000000000407061 035 $a(EBL)1209914 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000155147 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12035933 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000155147 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10099549 035 $a(PQKB)10091072 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1209914 035 $a(WSP)00006068 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1209914 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10201459 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL191920 035 $a(OCoLC)854972180 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000407061 100 $a20060626d2006 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurbuu|||uu||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aFind a hotter place!$b[electronic resource] $ea history of nuclear astrophysics /$fLudwik Marian Celnikier 210 $aHackensack, NJ $cWorld Scientific$dc2006 215 $a1 online resource (210 p.) 225 1 $aWorld Scientific series in astronomy and astrophysics ;$vv. 11 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a981-4338-20-6 311 $a981-256-730-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 181-183) and index. 327 $aPreface; Contents; 1 The Vacuum the Universe and Things That Go ""Pop"" in the Night; 1.1 The discovery of the vacuum; 1.2 The rise and fall of the vacuum; 1.3 The vacuum reborn; 1.4 The transmutation of the vacuum; 1.5 The tribulations of a simple oscillator; 1.6 The aether nouveau regime; 1.7 The unbearable heaviness of the vacuum; 2 Eleven Quadrillion Six Hundred Thousand Billion Tonnes of Coal per Second; 2.1 The eternal triangle; 2.2 Cracks in the celestial sphere; 2.3 The rebirth of atoms; 3 Fin de Siecle Fin du Monde; 3.1 The atoms of chemistry; 3.2 The atoms of heat 327 $a3.3 Chemical analysis without chemistry 3.4 Temperature measurement without a thermometer; 3.5 A bagful of loose ends; 3.6 Thermodynamics: the 19th century astronomer's best friend; 3.7 The death of the Universe; 4 A Mystery Wrapped in an Enigma; 4.1 The mystery; 4.2 The enigma; 5 The Rise of the New Physics; 5.1 Almost but not quite the alchemist's dream; 5.2 Light magic; 5.3 To catch a beam of light; 5.4 A locked room mystery . . . solved; 5.5 Of what is the Universe made?; 6 The Chicken and the Egg; 6.1 Balancing acts; 6.2 Neutrons to the rescue?; 6.3 Cosmology to the rescue? 327 $a7 The Best of Times and the Worst of Times 7.1 Theories to end all theories; 7.2 Thermonuclear leggo; 7.3 And yet they shine; 7.4 The inflationary economy of stars; 7.5 To see the World in a grain of sand; 8 A Tale of Two Theories and One Dogma; 8.1 Fiat lux?; 8.2 Continuous creation?; 8.3 Cosmic cooking pots; 8.4 Death of a travelling dogma; 9 Relics of a Bygone Age; 9.1 One man's noise is another man's Nobel prize; 9.2 Clues about the distant past; 9.3 Genesis according to Gamow; 10 Cosmic Ash; 10.1 ""The fault dear Enrico is not in our stars but in your neutrinos"" 327 $a10.2 Things that go bump in the night 10.3 ""I come not to bury Caesar but to praise him""; 10.4 Most of our Universe is missing; Epilogue - the Mysterious Universe; A Personal Chronology of 20th Century Astrosphysics; Bibliography; Index 330 $aFind a hotter place! is the insightful story of the tortured path that led to our current understanding of how the elements in the Universe came to be. This is a story which began in Greek Antiquity, with the first musings on the nature of matter and the void, and continues today with ever more refined analyses involving virtually every aspect of 20th century physics, astronomy, cosmology and information technology. Identifying the source of stellar energy, probing the earliest instants of the Universe, and discovering of how and where each element was made are some of the outstanding success 410 0$aWorld Scientific series in astronomy and astrophysics ;$vv. 11. 606 $aNuclear astrophysics$xHistory 606 $aNuclear astrophysics 615 0$aNuclear astrophysics$xHistory. 615 0$aNuclear astrophysics. 676 $a523.01 700 $aCelnikier$b Ludwik Marian$01542272 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910784990003321 996 $aFind a hotter place$93794853 997 $aUNINA