Connecting Quarks with the Cosmos: Eleven Science Questions for the New Century

by National Research Council, Board on Physics and Astronomy, Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences

Advances made by physicists in understanding matter, space, and time and by astronomers in understanding the universe as a whole have closely intertwined the question being asked about the universe at its two extremes?the very large and the very small. This report identifies 11 key questions that have a good chance to be answered in the next decade. It urges that a new research strategy be created that brings to bear the techniques of both astronomy...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0309074061
• ISBN13: 9780309074063
• Release Date: April 2003
• Publisher: National Academies Press
• Length: 222 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 7.1" x 9.9"