Read article 'Bananaworld: Quantum Mechanics for Primates'
This is not another "quantum mechanics for dummies" book, as the author himself states. Nevertheless, it is a text that talks about quantum mechanics but is not meant for experts in the field.
Read article 'Particles and the Universe: From the Ionian School to the Higgs Boson and Beyond'
This book aims to present the history of particle physics, from the introduction of the concept of particles by Greek philosophers, to the discovery of the last tile of the Standard Model, the Higgs b...
Read article 'Statistical Methods for Data Analysis in Particle Physics'
Louis Lyons reviews in 2016 Statistical Methods for Data Analysis in Particle Physics.
Read article 'Path Integrals for Pedestrians'
This short book provides a clear, pedagogical and insightful presentation of the path integral formulation of quantum mechanics.
Read article 'Ghosts in the machine'
In July 1956, in a brief paper published in Science, a small team based at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in the US presented results from an experiment at a new, powerful fission reactor at the S...
Read article 'Japan eyes up its future'
Japan has been a leader in the global neutrino community since the 1980s, breaking ground (both literally and figuratively) with multiple generations of massive underground experiments. These e...
Read article 'A portal to new physics'
The 1998 discovery that neutrinos can oscillate between different flavours, by the Super-Kamiokande experiment in Japan and subsequently by the SNO experiment in Canada, marked a turning point ...
Read article 'The Unknown as an Engine for Science: An Essay on the Definite and the Indefinite'
This essay is the result of interdisciplinary research pursued by the author, a theoretical physicist, on the concept of the indefinite and its expression in different fields of human knowledge.
Read article 'Goethe’s ‘Exposure of Newton’s Theory’: A Polemic On Newton’s Theory of Light and Colour'
The book provides an English translation of Goethe’s polemic, completed by an introduction in which a possible justification of this resistance by Goethe to Newton’s theory is given.
Read article 'Superconductivity: A New Approach Based on the Bethe–Salpeter Equation in the Mean-Field Approximation'
This specialist book on superconductivity proposes an approach to the topic, based on the Bethe–Salpeter equations, that allows a description of the characteristics of superconductors (SCs) that are...
