Structures made out of building blocks can shift their shape and autonomously self-organize to a new configuration. The physicists Saeed Osat and Ramin Golestanian from the Max Planck Institute for ...
"In the preparation of this book the senior author's earlier Russian book ("Theory of structures,' by S. Timoshenko, 2d ed., St. Petersburg, 1926) was extensively used."--Pref.
String theory found its origins in an attempt to understand the nascent experiments revealing the strong nuclear force. Eventually another theory, one based on particles called quarks and force ...