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Image and Logic: Material Culture of Microphysics (Paperback)

by P Galison (Author) "In 1964, some of the world's leading experimental physicists gathered in Karlsruhe, West Germany, to discuss the radical changes then underway in their profession ..." (more)

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Paperback: 982 pages
Publisher: Chicago University Press (24 Sep 1997)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0226279170
ISBN-13: 978-0226279176
Product Dimensions: 22.8 x 15.2 x 4.8 cm

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Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 611,964 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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This study engages with the impact of modern technology on experimental physicists. It reveals how the ever-increasing scale and complexity of apparatus has distanced physicists from the very science which drew them into experimenting, and has fragmented microphysics into different technical traditions. At the beginning of this century, physics was usually done by a lone researcher who put together experimental apparatus on a benchtop. Now experiments are frequently larger than a city block, and experimental physicists lead very different lives - programming computers, working with industry, co-ordinating vast teams of scientists and engineers, and playing politics. The author describes how, as a result of these changes, the necessity for teamwork in operating multimillion-dollar machines has created dynamic "trading zones", where instrument makers, theorists and experimentalists meet, share knowledge, and co-ordinate the extraordinarily diverse pieces of the culture of modern microphysics - work, machines, evidence and argument.

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5.0 out of 5 stars thrilling insight into microphysics, 21 Sep 2005

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This is an excellent book. It is accessible to a general reader with an interest in the "machines" with which some of the most important breakthroughs of modern physics were made. Gallison uses some fascinating metaphors, for instance the idea of a pidgin or trading language allowing communication between researchers in different fields (ie those who count events and those who create images of them).

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