Hidden worlds
Subtitle: hunting for quarks in ordinary matter
By: Timothy Paul Smith
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Princeton
Language: eng
Number of pages: 178
Subjects: Quarks
Description: "Though quarks that make science headlines are typically laboratory creations generated under extreme conditions, most quarks occur naturally. They reside in the protons and neutrons that make up almost all of the universe's known matter... Smith explains what these quarks are, how they act, and why physicists believe in them sight unseen."--From book jacket.
Notes: Includes index