文档介绍：THE QUANTUM ENIGMA:
FINDING THE HIDDEN KEY
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The bubble-chamber photograph on the front cover is reproduced
with the permission of the Brookhaven National Laboratory. Taken
in 1964, it marks the discovery of omega-minus, a heavy particle
predicted by Murray Gell-Mann. This photograph provided the
first experimental confirmation of Gell-Mann's theory of quarks,
for which he received the Nobel Prize in 1969. It depicts the forma•
tion and almost immediate disintegration of an omega-minus par•
ticle. The disintegration is plished in three essive
breakups, in each of which the particle sheds a dose of what physi•
cists term 'strangeness'. The end product of this sequence is a proton
(a particle having zero strangeness).
The diagram indicates the formation and essive breakup
points of the omega-minus particle. Dashed lines represent trajec•
tories of neutral particles (which leave no tracks in a bubble cham•
ber). The remaining trajectories, on the other hand, can be readily
identified. Points 1, 2, and 3 have been marked on the panying
photograph.
Wolfgang Smith
THE
QUANTUM
ENIGMA
Finding the Hidden Key
S02HIA PERENNIS
HILLSDALE NY
Third, revised edition, 2005
First, and Second, revised editions,
Sherwood & Sugden, 1995
© Wolfgang Smith
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No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted,
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Smith, Wolfgang
The quantum enigma : finding the hidden key I
Wolfgang Smith.-3fd, rev. ed.
p. em.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 159731 007 7 (pbk: alk. paper)
ISBN 1 59731 038 7