LEADER 03692cam 2200433 i 4500001 on1347695292 003 OCoLC 005 20230503142634.8 008 221016t20232023paua b 001 0 eng d 020 0822947587 020 9780822947585 035 (Sirsi) 40031713227 035 40031713227 035 (OCoLC)1347695292 040 YDX |beng |erda |cYDX |dBDX |dUKMGB |dOCLCF |dPIT |dCDX |dNMW |dUtOrBLW 050 4 QC5.3 |b.H37 2023 082 04 530.01/4 |223 100 1 Harmon, Joseph E. |eauthor. |=^A1308897 245 14 The many voices of modern physics : |bwritten communication practices of key discoveries / |cJoseph E. Harmon and Alan G. Gross ; with an afterword by Randy Allen Harris. 264 1 Pittsburgh, PA : |bUniversity of Pittsburgh Press, |c[2023] 264 4 |c©2023 300 ix, 298 pages : |billustrations ; |c22 cm 336 text |btxt |2rdacontent 337 unmediated |bn |2rdamedia 338 volume |bnc |2rdacarrier 504 Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-287) and index. 505 0 Introduction -- Special relativity -- General relativity -- Quantum mechanics -- Unification physics -- Cosmic conjectures -- Quantum magic -- Transistor actions -- Astronomical value -- The atomic bomb : anticipated and unanticipated consequences -- Epilogue -- Afterword / by Randy Allen Harris 520 "The Many Voices of Modern Physics follows a revolution that began in 1905 when Albert Einstein published papers on special relativity and quantum theory. Unlike Newtonian physics, this new physics often departs wildly from common sense, a radical divorce that presents a unique communicative challenge to physicists when writing for other physicists or for the general public, and to journalists and popular science writers as well. In their two long careers, Joseph Harmon and the late Alan Gross have explored how scientists communicate with each other and with the general public. Here, they focus not on the history of modern physics but on its communication. In their survey of physics communications and related persuasive practices, they move from peak to peak of scientific achievement, recalling how physicists use the communicative tools available--in particular, thought experiments, analogies, visuals, and equations--to convince others that what they say is not only true but significant, that it must be incorporated into the body of scientific and general knowledge. Each chapter includes a chorus of voices, from the many celebrated physicists who devoted considerable time and ingenuity to communicating their discoveries, to the science journalists who made those discoveries accessible to the public, and even to philosophers, sociologists, historians, an opera composer, and a patent lawyer. With their final collaboration, Harmon and Gross offer a tribute to the communicative practices of the physicists who convinced their peers and the general public that the universe is a far more bizarre and interesting place than their nineteenth-century predecessors imagined."-- |cProvided by publisher 650 0 Communication in physics. |=^A862471 650 0 Physicists. |=^A46483 650 7 Communication in physics. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst00870241 650 7 Physicists. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01063014 700 1 Gross, Alan G. |eauthor. |=^A266552 700 1 Harris, Randy Allen, |eauthor of afterword, colophon, etc. |=^A388800 949 |i30372017353274 |ojjlm 960 |o1 |s65.00 |tJoyner48 |uJAPP |zUSD 596 1 998 6143293