01072nam a2200205Ia 4500003000400000005001700004008004000021020001500061040000700076041000800083082001700091100001900108245008500127260004000212300000800252440001300260520054000273650003200813700002100845OSt20230622124611.0210210b2001   xxu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  a8173710798  cAL  aeng  a539.721 VENB  aG Venkataraman  aBig and the Small:bJourney into the microcosm the story of elementary particles  aHyderabadbUniversities Pressc2001  a276  aVolume 1  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.  aParticles (Nuclear physics)  aVENKATARAMAN (G)