History of Science, Philosophy and Culture in Indian Civilization Vol. XII, Part 4: Modern Atomism

includes index and biblioraphy

Early atomism .......1 Atomism in Ancient India ...........13 Atomism in Ancient India ..............23 Symmetry : An introduction .........33 Early ideas on Motion : Aristotle ............45 Statistical arguments and Theories of Heat and Thermodynamics........59 Theories of Structure of Matter and Radiation ............69 Space , Time and our Universe ..........83 Evolution from classical to quantum theory .......109 A brief history of Twentieth century particle physics .........193 Cosmic rays, neutrinos and high energy gamma ray astronomies ....................213 Pions and muons, strange particles and parity violation .......231 From charm to top:the story of the discoveries of Charm, beauty and top quarks ...................245 The story of the neutrino........259 The stability of matter : Atoms to bulk to stars ........283 Can stars find peace .........291 The hot big bang model ...........327 The dark universe .........373 Cosmic mocrowave background radiation and inflation ........385 Quantum fields ............393 Symmetry as a driving principle ...............419 The standard model of particle interactions ...........465 Kenneth wilson and the development of renormalization group ............481 Particles, fields and strings .............499 Satellite-based astronomy ..........517 Collaboration in experimental research ...............537 From atoms to molecules and molecular organization in Crystals ...........547 Raman spectroscopy applications to materials and medicine .............565 Physics in Biology ...........579