By Howard Georgi
This textbook applies Lie crew concept to a number of difficulties. the idea is a key procedure for researchers looking the unified theories that may unite the 4 forces of nature - electromagnetic, gravitational, susceptible and powerful nuclear forces.
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In 1913 the Cambridge Scientific Instrument Company, in UK, had produced commercial versions of the chamber, with the assistance from Wilson, and in 1927 the chamber was used for demonstrations to students. An advertisement on Philosophical Magazine in May 1926 was accompanied with the slogan “The most wonderful experiment in the world” as a declaration attributed to an anonymous eminent physicist (see Fig. 13) [61]. The Wilson chamber gave a permanent photographic registration that could be carried away and studied with ease, and the examination of the deflections obtained with magnetic fields and the counting of the droplets produced by ionization allowed to have precious information on the nature of the particles that were detected.
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