Overview
- Adresses some of the most essential questions of modern pyhsics
- Focusses on possible variation of fundamental constants
- Style suited to newcomers and graduate students
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Physics (LNP, volume 648)
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Table of contents (20 chapters)
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Front Matter
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About this book
The question of a possible temporal variation of the fundamental constants was raised by Paul Dirac in his "large number hypothesis" in 1937. Today it appears in the context of the search for a unified theory of the fundamental interactions. It touches both fundamental and applied physics, as the postulate of the unalterability of the constants is the foundation for modern metrology. The book presents reviews written by leading experts in the field. Focussing on the question of variations of the fundamental "constants" in time or space, the chapters cover the theoretical framework in which variations are expected and the search for variations of quantities like the fine-structure constant, the electron/proton mass ratio, g-factors of proton and neutron etc. in astrophysical and geophysical observations and in precision experiments with atomic clocks and frequency standards.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Astrophysics, Clocks and Fundamental Constants
Editors: Savely G. Karshenboim, Ekkehard Peik
Series Title: Lecture Notes in Physics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/b13178
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
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eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2004
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-540-21967-5Published: 11 August 2004
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-06025-0Published: 09 December 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-3-540-40991-5Published: 19 August 2004
Series ISSN: 0075-8450
Series E-ISSN: 1616-6361
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVIII, 347
Topics: Astrophysics and Astroparticles, Quantum Physics, Measurement Science and Instrumentation, Classical and Quantum Gravitation, Relativity Theory, Elementary Particles, Quantum Field Theory