Splinters of Infinity: Cosmic Rays and the Clash of Two Nobel Prize-Winning Scientists Over the Secrets of Creation (Wolverton Mark)(Pevná vazba)

The riveting story of a modern age scientific feud between two Nobel Prize-winning scientists over the nature of cosmic rays and the universe. Set in a revolutionary era of physics and science when a series of rapid-fire discoveries was upending our understanding of the universe, Splinters of Infinity by Mark Wolverton tells a little-known story: the tale of two of America's foremost physicists, Robert Millikan (1868-1953) and Arthur Compton (1892-1962), who found themselves locked in an intense, often deeply personal, conflict about cosmic rays. Confirmed in 1912, cosmic rays--enigmatic forms of penetrating radiation--seemed to raise all new questions about the origins of the universe, but they also offered the potential to explain everything--or reveal the existence of God. In engaging, accessible prose, Wolverton takes the reader through the twists and turns of
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