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03803aam a2200361 a 4500 001 DCD36EF0C4D411E18910E79C6AFF544E 003 SILO 005 20200118010508 008 110311s2012 nyua b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2011006002 020 $a 0816076065 020 $a 9780816076062 035 $a (OCoLC)460053997 040 $a DLC $b eng $c DLC $d SILO $d BTCTA $d YDXCP $d EIK $d BWX $d CDX $d UPM $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a QC171.2 $b .A54 2012 082 00 $a 530.4 $2 22 100 1 $a Angelo, Joseph A. 245 1 $a Extreme states of matter / $c Joseph A. Angelo, Jr. 260 $a New York, NY : $b Facts on File, $c c2012. 300 $a xx, 248 p. : $b col. ill. ; $c 25 cm. 490 0 $a States of matter 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Machine generated contents note: 1.An Initial Look at Matter Nearing Extreme Conditions -- Mass: The Measurement of Substance -- Mass -- Energy -- Density -- Newton's Mechanical Universe -- Pressure -- Temperature -- Rankine -- The Other Absolute Temperature -- Time -- The Primary Time and Frequency Standard for the United States -- Traveling Back in Time Using Radioactivity -- 2.Birth of the Universe -- Big Bang Cosmology -- Hubble and the Expanding Universe -- History of the Universe -- The First Three Minutes -- Four Fundamental Forces in Nature -- Inflation -- Importance of the Big Bang Hypothesis -- 3.Atomism -- The Atomic Nature of Matter -- Accelerators -- The Nuclear Particle Zoo -- Human-Made Superheavy Elements -- Making Ununtrium and Ununpentium -- The Standard Model -- Thinking Small -- Lilliputian World of Nanotechnology -- Buckyballs -- 4.Very Hot Matter -- Plasma -- Fourth State of Matter -- Types and Characteristics of Plasmas -- Magnetoplasmadynamic Thruster -- Nuclear Fusion -- ITER Project -- Thermonuclear Weapons -- 5.Life Cycles of Stars -- Stars and the Early Universe -- The Early Universe -- Some Physical Characteristics of Stars -- Humans' Parent Star -- The Sun -- Hans Albrecht Bethe -- Type Ia Supernovas -- The Fate of Massive Stars -- Exoplanets Spark the Second Copernican Revolution -- Quark Stars -- 6.The Dark Side of the Universe -- Black Holes -- Gravity's Ultimate Triumph over Matter -- Primitive Black Holes -- Supermassive Black Hole Rips Unlucky Star Apart -- Astronomers Investigate X-ray Jets of Black Hole -- Dark Matter -- Zwicky and the Initial Hunt for Missing Mass -- Hunting Dark Matter with the Hubble Space Telescope -- Dark Energy -- 7.Very Cold Matter -- Understanding Cold -- Some Naturally Cold Environments -- Cryogenics -- Superconductivity -- Applications of Cryogenic Liquids -- Superfluids -- Bose-Einstein Condensate -- 8.Antimatter -- The Discovery of Antimatter -- Powerful Accelerator Discovers Exotic Antimatter -- Antiprotons and Antihydrogen -- CERN -- The Universe's Missing Antimatter -- Antimatter Cosmology -- Positron Emission Tomography -- Antimatter for Interstellar Propulsion -- 9.Beyond Einstein -- Einstein and Relativity Theory -- Gravitational Lensing -- Gravitational Waves -- Quantum Gravity -- Wormholes -- 10.Living and Thinking Matter -- The Big Bang and Life -- Principle of Mediocrity -- Life in the Universe -- Anthropic Principle -- Consciousness and the Universe -- Exotheology -- Machines That Think -- Self-Replicating System -- Characteristics of Extraterrestrial Civilizations -- 11.Conclusion. 650 0 $a Matter $x Properties $v Popular works. 650 0 $a Chemical elements $v Popular works. 650 0 $a Exobiology $v Popular works. 941 $a 4 952 $l PNAX964 $d 20200829012010.0 952 $l MMPE553 $d 20180719041052.0 952 $l IBAX173 $d 20180307023856.0 952 $l UNUX074 $d 20130327010303.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=DCD36EF0C4D411E18910E79C6AFF544EInitiate Another SILO Locator Search