Spaceship Neutrino

by Christine Sutton

Book Overview

Spaceship Neutrino charts the history of the neutrino, from its beginnings in the 1930s, when it was postulated as a way of explaining an otherwise intractable problem in physics, to its crucial role in modern theories of the Universe. Christine Sutton is well known for her popular science writing. In this book she describes how the detection and measurement of neutrino properties have tested technology to its limits, requiring huge detectors, often...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521367034
• ISBN13: 9780521367035
• Release Date: October 1992
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 260 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 7.5" x 9.4"