num_pages: 356
description: The scope of the book is to give an overview of the history of astroparticle physics starting with the discovery of cosmic rays (Victor Hess 1912) and its background (X-ray radioactivity).The book focusses on the ways in which physics changes in the course of this history. The following changes run parallel overlap and/or - Discovery of effects like X-rays radioactivity cosmic rays new particles but also progress through non-discoveries (monopoles) etc.- The change of the description of nature in physics as consequence of new theoretical questions at the beginning of the 20th century giving rise to quantum physics relativity etc.- The change of experimental methods cooperations disciplinary divisions.With regard to the latter change a main topic of the book is to make the specific multi-diciplinary features of astroparticle physics clear.
language: English
title: From Ultra Rays to Astroparticles: A Historical Introduction to Astroparticle Physics
publisher: Springer