{"product_id":"9789814338202","title":"Find A Hotter Place!: A History Of Nuclear Astrophysics: A History of Nuclear Astrophysics","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eFind a hotter place!\u003c\/i\u003e 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 stories of the 20th century, but have received little attention beyond the specialized literature.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe year 2007 marks the 50th anniversary of the publication of one of the key papers on stellar nucleosynthesis, universally referred to as the B2FH paper. This book is a timely survey of how a new discipline — nuclear astrophysics — was born, and how it has matured. Almost completely non-technical, the book remains scientifically rigorous, and thereby fills an important gap.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eScience is not a linear process, as the ill-named “scientific method” might suggest to the unwary. The author emphasizes the meanders, the dead ends and the obsessive dogmas which have guided researchers through the 20th century. He also makes it clear that our understanding of where the elements come from has come through discoveries in diverse, not necessarily related, disciplines.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eContents: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Vacuum, the Universe, and Things That Go “Pop” in the Night\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eEleven Quadrillion Six Hundred Thousand Billion Tonnes of Coal per Second\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFin de Siècle, Fin du Monde\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA Mystery Wrapped in an Enigma\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Rise of the New Physics\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Chicken and the Egg\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Best of Times and the Worst of Times\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA Tale of Two Theories and One Dogma\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRelics of a Bygone Age\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCosmic Ash\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReadership: \u003c\/b\u003eStudents, academics, and the general public interested in the history of physics and astrophysics.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"World Scientific Publishing Company, Incorporated","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47185518362864,"sku":"9789814338202","price":33.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9789814338202_p0.jpg?v=1763690787","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9789814338202","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}