THE PARTICLE PLAY: AN ACCOUNT OF THE ULTIMATE CONSTITUENTS OF MATTER
Written by J.C. Polkinghorne
Published by W.H. Freeman and Company
in 1979
ISBN: 071671177X
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THE PARTICLE PLAY: AN ACCOUNT OF THE ULTIMATE CONSTITUENTS OF MATTER
Written by J.C. Polkinghorne.
Stock no. 2119117
1st.
1979.
Hardback.
Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.
Written for the layman. It unfolds a tale which starts with the deceptively simple days of the early 1930s, through the tide of discovery which flowed from the giant machines constructed for accelerating particles, to the present concern with the quark structure of matter and the unification of fundamental interactions. Blue cloth boards, gilt title to spine. 138 pages including index. ISBN: 071671177X. A very nice copy with dustwrapper.
Front cover
Contents
- I. Dramatis Personae
- II. Stage Machinery
- III. Setting the Scene
- IV. The Plot Thickens
- V. Dramaturgy
- VI. Exits and Entrances
- VII. Quarks Reprise
- VIII. Denouement
- IX. Forthcoming Attractions
- X. Epilogue