How Experiments End

Klappentext This book is addressed to readers interested in how arguments emerge from the modern physical laboratory. It is neither an overview of particle physics nor a collection of results of 'great experiments' summarized to teach physics. Instead! the book is written for those intrigued by the history! philosophy! and sociology of laboratory science! as well as for working physicists. Motivating the book are several questions: What bits of theory shape experimentalists' faith in a microphysical effect? Which piece of apparatus can they trust? How does the overwhelming historical expansion of the laboratory from bench to factory affect the building of a persuasive argument ? Zusammenfassung Histories of three experimental episodes: the measurement of the gyromagnetic ratio of the electron! the discovery of the mu meson! or muon! and the discovery of weak neutral currents. These studies of actual experiments will provide valuable material for both philosophers and historians of science.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Peter Galison, Peter Louis Galison, Galison Peter
• Verlag: University Of Chicago Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 01.10.1987
• EAN: 9780226279152
• ISBN: 978-0-226-27915-2
• Seiten: 342
• Abmessung: 172 mm x 242 mm x 20 mm
• Themen: Naturwissenschaften, Medizin, Informatik, Technik > Physik, Astronomie; Sachbuch > Natur, Technik > Astronomie: Allgemeines, Nachschlagewerke; SCIENCE / Physics / General, Physics