Modern Alchemy and the Philosopher's Stone
A Journey through the World of high Pressure
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Beschreibung
Two young students start a discussion with one of their professors when they see him as he is cutting a strange sculpture from a trunk in his front garden.
Two young students start a discussion with one of their professors when they see him as he is cutting a strange sculpture from a trunk in his front garden. They get invited to a personnel seminar on some features of the sculpture and this seminar turns into a journey through modern alchemy and the world of high pressure. Looking at high pressure in the universe they notice strange particles, strange objects, strange states in theses objects.and in the world around us looking at the big bang, at strange starsand at strange transformations of our chemical elements as some kind of modern alchemy. How can they explore this world of high pressure? What are the crystal structures of the elements? Why do the elements transform under pressure? What does the sculpture of the professor tell about the elements? All these question lead to some modern solid state physics without discussions of any formulas but with many colored picture describing nature.
Autor*in
Wilfried B. Holzapfel
1938 born in Magdeburg, Germany/ 1963 Diploma in theoretical physics (G. Falk), 1964... married, two children/ 1966 Dr. rer. nat. (PhD) in experimental physics, research associate TU Karlsruhe, (E. U. Franck), U. of Illinois, Urbana, USA, (H. G. Drickamer)/ 1969 Head of high pressure group, TU München, (R. L. Mößbauer)/ 1971 Head of high pressure lab MPI Stuttgart/ 1978 Prof. in physics Univ. Paderborn, Chairman of EHPRG,/ 1988 Member in the editorial board of "High Pressure Research"/ 1989 Chairman of the 12. AIRAPT and 27. EHPRG conference in Paderborn/ 1991 Chairman of the scientific advisory board of HASYLAB at DESY, Hamburg/ 1982-2009 Visiting prof. UCLA, Los Angeles; Lawrence Livermore Lab., USA; Univ. of Bordeaux, France; LENS, Florenz; Univ. of Nevada, Las Vegas, USA
Themen in »Modern Alchemy and the Philosopher's Stone«
Alchemy High pressure Chemical Elements crystal structures Equations of States cosmology Big Bang phase diagrams Structure of solids