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" And yet it moves : "
Mark P. Silverman.
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BL
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630888
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Silverman, Mark P.
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And yet it moves : : strange systems and subtle questions in physics /\ Mark P. Silverman.
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Cambridge [England] ;New York :: Cambridge University Press,, 1993.
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xvii, 266 p. :: ill. ;; 24 cm.
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0521391733
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: 9780521391733
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: 0521446317 (pbk.)
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: 9780521446310 (pbk.)
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Includes index.
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"Selected papers by the author": p. 252-261.
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| Abstract
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The unimaginably strange behaviour of free electrons -- Quantum beats and giant atoms -- And yet it moves: exotic atoms and the invariance of charge -- Reflections on light -- Two worlds, large and small: earth and atom -- The Wirbelrohr's roar (...or rather whistle) -- Science and wonder.
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Physics.
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Quantum theory.
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QC21.2.S47 1993
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