Too Hot to Handle (eBook)

The Race for Cold Fusion

Frank Close (Autor)

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2014
388 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-6160-6 (ISBN)

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Frank Close, a leading physicist and talented popular science writer, reveals the true story of the cold fusion controversy--a story ignored until now in spite of the glare of publicity surrounding Martin Fleischmann and Stanley Pons. On March 23, 1989, these two Utah scientists held an astonishing press conference, maintaining that they had succeeded, working in secret, in harnessing atomic fusion. What was the basis for their claims to have achieved cold fusion in a test tube in a basement laboratory, while other scientists--using magnets as big as houses and temperatures hotter than those in the center of the sun--were failing to produce as much power as they were using? Why did Fleischmann and Pons proclaim their "discovery" at a news conference, when first announcements of scientific results are almost always made within the scientific community? Why did the full-blown media event inspired by their initial report cause governments to reorient their research programs in hopes of cornering the "new technology"? And why did some scientists recklessly abandon their traditional painstaking methods in haste to be first to prove or discredit the experiment? Acquainted at first hand with investigations of cold fusion on two continents, Close is uniquely qualified to probe the motivations behind Fleischmann's and Pons's startling assertions and to explore the intellectual and political turmoil that surrounded the cold fusion debate.Originally published in 1991.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 14.7.2014
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Legacy Library
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Legacy Library
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften
• Themenwelt: Technik
• Schlagworte: acid rain • acronym • Alpha particle • Aluminium • Andrei Sakharov • annoyance • Atom • Atomic Energy • Atomic Nucleus • atomic number • Bikash Sinha • Bogdan Maglich • Bumping (chemistry) • Carbon-14 • Central Electricity Generating Board • Chemical element • chemical substance • Chernobyl disaster • cloud chamber • Cold Fusion • Contrail • Cosmic Ray • Cryogenics • Dan Rather • Detonation • Deuterium • Discovery of the neutron • Edward Teller • electric charge • electricity • electrode • Emulsion • Energy • Enriched uranium • Ernest Rutherford • Ernest Walton • Exotic atom • Exxon Valdez • Fissile material • For All Practical Purposes • fuel • Fusion power • Harold Urey • Headline • Heat • heavy water • Helium-3 • Helium-4 • hot Spring • hydrogen atom • inertial confinement fusion • Instant • internal energy • irving langmuir • Isotope • James Chadwick • Just Energy • liquefaction • magnetic confinement fusion • Martin Fleischmann • Meson • Muon • Neutron • Neutron flux • Nobel prize • nuclear fusion • Nuclear power • nuclear reaction • nuclear weapon • ozone depletion • Particle accelerator • Pathological science • Patrick Blackett • pessimism • physicist • Physics World • Pion • plagiarism • Plutonium • pollution • positron • Quantity • Radiocarbon Dating • raw material • Richard Feynman • room temperature • Solution • Speed of Light • test pilot • theoretical physics • Thermonuclear fusion • Thermonuclear weapon • The World of Science (Golden book) • Tokamak • Tokamak Fusion Test Reactor • Too cheap to meter • Tritium • Types of volcanic eruptions • Uncertainty • William Prout
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-6160-8 / 1400861608
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-6160-6 / 9781400861606