life science library matter

Ralph E. Lapp

Of all the fundamental questions that have fascinated men, one of the most persistent concerns the nature and behavior of matter — the basic stuff of which things are made. This book reports on what science has learned to date about matter in its three familiar forms — solid, liquid and gas — and in its more recently recognized “fourth state,” plasma. It chronicles the most portentous discovery of our age, the fact that matter can be concerted into energy, and describes the dramatic and continuing pursuit of the inmost secret of matter, the atomic nucleus.