The edge of physics
Subtitle: a journey to Earth's extremes to unlock the secrets of the universe
By: Anil Ananthaswamy.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780618884681
Copyright date: 2010
Subjects: Physics -- Popular works
Genres: Popular works
First sentence: It was the day after Christmas in 2004, a bright winter's day in Berkeley, California.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Monks and astronomers; title: The detector that sees nothing; title: Little neutral ones; title: The Paranal light quartet; title: Fire, rock, and ice; title: Three thousand eyes in the Karoo; title: Antimatter over Antarctica; title: Einstein meets quantum physics at the South Pole; title: The heart of the matter; title: Whispers from other universes.