New directions in physics. The Los Alamos 40th anniversary

Book · Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 1987

OSTI ID:6120718

Metropolis, N; Kerr, D M; Rota, G C

In 1983 the outstanding scientists gathered in Los Alamos to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the laboratory. This volume contains the papers presented in that meeting. It presents many of the important advances made in physics over the intervening forty years and provides an idea of the possibilities for the future. Among the contributors are eight Nobel Laureates. The contents include: Los Alamos in the 1980s; tiny computers obeying quantum mechanical laws; present, and future of nuclear magnetic resonance; experimental evidence that an asteroid impact led to the extinction of many species 65 million years ago; the lunar laboratory; the future of particle accelerators: Post WWII and now; models, hypotheses and approximations; comments on three thermonuclear paths for the synthesis of helium; and the sad augurs mock their own passage; experiments on time reversal symmetry and parity; on the course of our magnetic fusion energy enterprise; early days in the Lawrence Laboratory; nuclear charge distribution in fission; developing larger software systems; reflections on style in physics; tuning up the TPC; remarks on the future of particle physics; supernova theory; how well we meant; history and the hierarchy of structure.

• OSTI ID: 6120718
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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71 CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS
GENERAL PHYSICS
73 NUCLEAR PHYSICS AND RADIATION PHYSICS
PHYSICS
MEETINGS
ACCELERATORS
ATOMIC PHYSICS
COMPUTERS
HEAVY ION FUSION REACTIONS
HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS
HISTORICAL ASPECTS
MOON
NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE
NUCLEAR PHYSICS
PROGRAMMING
QUANTUM MECHANICS
REACTOR PHYSICS
RESEARCH PROGRAMS
T INVARIANCE
THERMONUCLEAR REACTORS
INVARIANCE PRINCIPLES
MAGNETIC RESONANCE
MECHANICS
NUCLEAR REACTIONS
RESONANCE
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640000* - Physics
650000 - Physics (1980-)