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100			_aVenkataraman, G.
245			_aThe big and the small : the story of elementary particles : _bVolume I,. Journey into the microcosm _cG Venkataraman
260			_aHyderabad, India : _bUniversities Press : Distributed by Orient Longman Limited, _c2001.
300			_aviii, 276 pages : _billustrations ; _c24 cm.
440			_aJourney into the microcosm _vVolume I
440			_aVignettes in physics.
505			_aBy probing deeper and deeper into the innermost recesses of the atom, physicists have been able to obtain not only a better understanding of the vast cosmos but indeed of the origin of the cosmos itself. This book is about the greatest adventure in human history—man’s attempt to reconstruct Creation by a combination of the most daring flights of imagination and mind-boggling experiments. It is, in short, the study of high-energy physics which may aptly be called the second Creation, or man’s attempt to reconstruct Creation. _tReconstructing Creation - An Introduction _tThen and Now _tA Pot-Pourri of Some Basic Facts _tFrom the Thirties to the Sixties _tA Weak Story _tFun with Mirrors _tBig Money for Small Particles _tThe Eight-fold Way _tAdding Charm to Quarks _tElectrifying the Weak _tSplicing Flavour with Colour _tWhat Next ?
650			_aParticles (Nuclear physics)
650			_aNuclear physics.
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