Confluence of Cosmology, Massive Neutrinos, Elementary Particles, and Gravitation.

Kursunoglu, Behram; Mintz, Stephan L.; Perlmutter, Arnold, eds.

ISBN 10: 0306462087 / ISBN 13: 9780306462085

Published by Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, New York., 1999

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8vo, hardcover. No dj. Vg+ condition. 1 ex-lib stamp on copyright page, no other markings. Binding tight, contents bright and clean. xvi, 246 p., illus, graphs. Proceedings of an international conference on confluence of cosmology, massive neutrinos, elementary particles, and gravitation, held December 17-21, 1998, in Fort Lauderdale. Seller Inventory # 1031017.29

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Title: Confluence of Cosmology, Massive Neutrinos, ...

Publisher: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, New York.

Publication Date: 1999

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis:

Justbefore the preliminary programof Orbis Scientiae 1998 went to press the news in physics was suddenly dominated by the discovery that neutrinos are, after all, massive particles. This was predicted by some physicists including Dr. Behram Kusunoglu, who had apaper published on this subject in 1976 in the Physical Review. Massive neutrinos do not necessarily simplify the physics of elementary particles but they do give elementary particle physics a new direction. If the dark matter content ofthe universe turns out to consist ofneutrinos, the fact that they are massive should make an impact on cosmology. Some of the papers in this volume have attempted to provide answers to these questions. We have a long way to go before we find the real reasons for nature’s creation of neutrinos. Another neutrino-related event was the passing of their discoverer, Fredrick Reines: The trustees of the Global Foundation, members of the Orbis Scientiae 1998, dedicate this conference to Fredrick Reines of the University of California at Irvine. The late Professor Reines was a loyal and active member of these series of conferences on the frontiers of physics and cosmology since 1964. He also sewed as one of the trustees of the Global Foundation for the past three years. Professor Reines discovered the most elusive particle, the neutrino, in 1954. We are proud to say that we recognized the importance of this discovery by awarding him the J.