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  • Grace in All Simplicity

    Beauty, Truth, and Wonders on the Path to the Higgs Boson and New Laws of Nature

    by Chris Quigg, Robert N. Cahn ...
    An enthralling and accessible account of humanity’s quest to make sense of our physical world, told through interwoven tales of inspiration, tragedy, and triumph.How do the remarkable recent discoveries of the Higgs boson, dark matter, and dark energy connect with the equally revolutionary discoveries in centuries past? In Grace in All Simplicity, readers will delight in Cahn and Quigg's engaging ... Read more

    Was $18.99 USD Now $11.99 USD

  • John David Jackson

    A Course in Quantum Mechanics

    by John David Jackson ...
    A Course in Quantum MechanicsUnique graduate-level textbook on quantum mechanics by John David Jackson, author of the renowned Classical ElectrodynamicsA Course in Quantum Mechanics is drawn directly from J. D. Jackson’s detailed lecture notes and problem sets. It is edited by his colleague and former student Robert N. Cahn, who has taken care to preserve Jackson’s unique style. The textbook is ... Read more

    $84.00 USD

  • The Experimental Foundations of Particle Physics

    by Robert N. Cahn, Gerson Goldhaber ...
    Our current understanding of elementary particles and their interactions emerged from break-through experiments. This book presents these experiments, beginning with the discoveries of the neutron and positron, and following them through mesons, strange particles, antiparticles, and quarks and gluons. This second edition contains new chapters on the W and Z bosons, the top quark, B-meson mixing ... Read more

    $110.69 USD

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    Grace in All Simplicity

    Beauty, Truth, and Wonders on the Path to the Higgs Boson and New Laws of Nature

    by Robert N. Cahn, Chris Quigg ...
    Narrated by Brian Troxell ...

    Unabridged

    14 hours

    In Grace in All Simplicity, listeners will delight in Cahn and Quigg's engaging prose and see how the infinite and the infinitesimal are joined. Today, physicists and astronomers are exploring distances from a billionth of a billionth of the human scale to the entire cosmos, and contemplating time intervals that range from less than a trillionth of a trillionth of a second out to far longer than ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

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