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Franklin, Allan; Fischbach, Ephraim - The Rise and Fall of the Fifth Force. Discovery, Pursuit, and Justification in Modern Physics.  - 9783319284118 - V9783319284118
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The Rise and Fall of the Fifth Force. Discovery, Pursuit, and Justification in Modern Physics.

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Description for The Rise and Fall of the Fifth Force. Discovery, Pursuit, and Justification in Modern Physics. Hardback. Num Pages: 261 pages, 89 black & white illustrations, 4 colour illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: PDA; PDX; PHD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 16. Weight in Grams: 561.
This book provides the reader with a detailed and captivating account of the story where, for the first time, physicists ventured into proposing a new force of nature beyond the four known ones - the electromagnetic, weak and strong forces, and gravitation - based entirely on the reanalysis of existing experimental data.  

Back in 1986, Ephraim Fischbach, Sam Aronson, Carrick Talmadge and their collaborators proposed a modification of Newton’s Law of universal gravitation. Underlying this proposal were three tantalizing pieces of evidence: 1) an energy dependence of the CP (particle-antiparticle and reflection symmetry) parameters, 2) differences between the ... Read more

Over the next four years numerous experiments were performed to test the hypothesis. By 1990 there was overwhelming evidence that the Fifth Force, as initially proposed, did not exist. This book discusses how the Fifth Force hypothesis came to be proposed and how it went on to become a showcase of discovery, pursuit and justification in modern physics, prior to its demise.

In this new and significantly expanded edition, the material from the first edition is complemented by two essays, one containing Fischbach’s personal reminiscences of the proposal, and a second on the ongoing history and impact of the Fifth Force hypothesis from 1990 to the present.

 

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Springer International Publishing AG Switzerland
Number of pages
261
Condition
New
Number of Pages
249
Place of Publication
Cham, Switzerland
ISBN
9783319284118
SKU
V9783319284118
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-15

About Franklin, Allan; Fischbach, Ephraim
Professor Franklin's research is on the history and philosophy of science, with particular emphasis on the role of experiment in physics. On the philosophical side, he has worked on the Duhem-Quine problem,  the question of how one can localize support or refutation, and on confirmation theory, using a Bayesian approach. More recently he has worked on the fallibility and corrigibility ... Read more

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