Washington DC: DOE/NSF High Energy Physics Advisory Panel, 2004. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Wraps. v, [1], 50 pages. Illustrations (most with color). Facilities Glossary. Cover has slight wear and soiling. What does "Quantum Universe" mean? To discover what the universe is made of and how it works is the challenge of particle physics. Quantum Universe presents the quest to explain the universe in terms of quantum physics, which governs the behavior of the microscopic, subatomic world. It describes a revolution in particle physics and a quantum leap in our understanding of the mystery and beauty of the universe. Particle physics (also high energy physics) is the branch of physics that studies the nature of the particles that constitute matter and radiation. Although the word "particle" can refer to various types of very small objects (e.g. protons, gas particles, or even household dust), "particle physics" usually investigates the irreducibly smallest detectable particles and the fundamental interactions necessary to explain their behavior. These elementary particles are excitations of the quantum fields that also govern their interactions. The currently dominant theory explaining these fundamental particles and fields, along with their dynamics, is called the Standard Model. Modern particle physics generally investigates the Standard Model and its possible extensions, e.g. to the newest "known" particle, the Higgs boson, or even to the oldest known force field, gravity. More

Washington DC: U. S. Government Printing Office, 1954. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Wraps. ix, [1], 138 pages. Cover has some wear, creases and soiling. Illustrations. Tables. Figures. The National Science Foundation (NSF) is a United States government agency that supports fundamental research and education in all the non-medical fields of science and engineering. Its medical counterpart is the National Institutes of Health. Currently, the NSF funds approximately 24% of all federally supported basic research conducted by the United States' colleges and universities. In some fields, such as mathematics, computer science, economics, and the social sciences, the NSF is the major source of federal backing. The NSF's director and deputy director are appointed by the President of the United States, and confirmed by the United States Senate, whereas the 24 presidentially appointed members of the National Science Board (NSF) do not require Senate confirmation. The director and deputy director are responsible for administration, planning, budgeting and day-to-day operations of the foundation. More

Washington DC: U. S. Government Printing Office, 1953. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Wraps. vii, [1], 110. [2] pages. Cover has slight wear and soiling. Illustration. Tables. Figures. The National Science Foundation (NSF) is a United States government agency that supports fundamental research and education in all the non-medical fields of science and engineering. Its medical counterpart is the National Institutes of Health. Currently, the NSF funds approximately 24% of all federally supported basic research conducted by the United States' colleges and universities. In some fields, such as mathematics, computer science, economics, and the social sciences, the NSF is the major source of federal backing. The NSF's director and deputy director are appointed by the President of the United States, and confirmed by the United States Senate, whereas the 24 presidentially appointed members of the National Science Board (NSF) do not require Senate confirmation. The director and deputy director are responsible for administration, planning, budgeting and day-to-day operations of the foundation. More

Arlington, VA: National Science Foundation, 2007. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Wraps. [2], iii, [1], 57, [1] pages. Illustrations (color). Definitions. Acronyms. Representatives Reports and Workshops. Chronology of NST Information Technology Investments. Management of Cyberinfrastructure. Virtual Organizations. Image Credits. Color has slight wear and soiling. United States federal research funders use the term cyberinfrastructure to describe research environments that support advanced data acquisition, data storage, data management, data integration, data mining, data visualization and other computing and information processing services distributed over the Internet beyond the scope of a single institution. In scientific usage, cyberinfrastructure is a technological and sociological solution to the problem of efficiently connecting laboratories, data, computers, and people with the goal of enabling derivation of novel scientific theories and knowledge. More

Washington, DC: National Science Foundation, 1962. Presumed first edition/first printing. Wraps. viii, 39, [2] pages. Includes bibliography. Tables. Figures. Footnotes. Cover has some wear and soiling. Understanding the structure of the atomic nucleus is one of the central challenges in nuclear physics. More