Andrei Sakharov: Quarks And The Structure Of Matter by Harry J Lipkin (PDF)

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In 1980, the Cold War was in full bloom. The Soviet father of the hydrogen bomb and Nobel Peace Laureate turned dissident physicist, Andrei Sakharov, had been exiled to Gorki by the Soviet authorities. Called “senile” and under heavy Soviet censorship, Sakharov had a hard time communicating his latest scientific results to readers outside of Gorki. Some smuggled results reached the author, Harry Lipkin, who then realized that he and Sakharov were both pioneers in a new revolution on our understanding the structure of matter. The particle physics community had resisted their revelation that the accepted building blocks of matter, neutrons and protons, were composed of tinier building blocks called “quarks”. What followed was a remarkable adventure in which both scientists fought the Soviet censors, smuggling postcards and manuscripts into and out of the Soviet Union while trying to further scientific progress.Against a backdrop of politics, suppression, and genius, Andrei Sakharov, Quarks and the Structure of Matter details the search for the basic building blocks of matter, the path to understanding the forces that bind them together, and how scientific knowledge is learned, communicated and passed from one group of investigators to another.

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⭐The publisher’s description (which may or may not properly represent the book) is absurd on its face. The Gell-Mann hypothesis of quarks (which is Gell-Mann’s coinage) is dated 1964. Experimental verification is dated late 1960s, actually about 1973. It took ten more years (ca. 1986) for physicists to mostly agree that quarks (really immaterial triadic color-charges in self-related motion, self-confined, and essentially eternal) were real and able to communicate with the external world through electromagnetism, one of the components of the color charge. The idea that post-1980 Soviet discussions were relevant to all this cannot, therefore, be true.

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