Sun in a bottle : the strange history of fusion and the science of wishful thinking / Charles Seife.
Sun in a bottle : the strange history of fusion and the science of wishful thinking / Charles Seife.
Sun in a bottle : the strange history of fusion and the science of wishful thinking / Charles Seife.
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New York : Viking, 2008.
Date
2008.
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N539.764/10
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English
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vi, 294 p. : ill., map ; 221 cm.
Contents
Sword of Michael -- The valley of iron -- Project plowshare and the sunshine units -- Kinks, instabilities, and baloney bombs -- Heat and light -- The cold shoulder -- Secrets -- Bubble trouble -- Nothing like the Sun -- The science of wishful thinking.
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New York : Viking, 2008.
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New York (State)
Date Published
2008.
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"Throughout this journey Charles Seife introduces us to the daring geniuses, villains, and victims of fusion science: the brilliant and tortured Andrei Sakharov; the monomaniacal and Strangelovean Edward Teller; Ronald Richter, the secretive physicist whose lies embarrassed an entire country; and Stanley Pons and Martin Fleischmann, the two chemist...
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Sun in a bottle : the strange history of fusion and the science of wishful thinking / Charles Seife.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [253]-282) and index.
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N539.764/10
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74VM44NAJQ6d
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9780670020331
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539.764
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991001550929702626
