附註:Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
The importance of words and of formulae -- The vocabulary of fusion plasma science -- pt. 1. Fusion in the Cosmos. 1. Plasmas. 2. Nuclear fusion. 3. The cosmos. 4. The plasma universe. 5. Electrical discharges -- pt. 2. Fusion on Earth. 6. Dynamic fine structure of plasmas. 7. The art of magnetic confinement. 8. Microballoon explosions by lasers: inertial confinement. 9. The fusion reactor. 10. Outlook into the future. Conclusions -- the great fusion plant -- Short fusion-plasma dictionary.
摘要:"Professor Hans Wilhelmsson shares with us his 50-year, life-long dream as one of fusion's main contemporary figures, to recreate on Earth the conditions that give rise to fusion at the heart of the Sun. He takes us through time on an epic voyage where we meet Nobel prize-winning characters such as Niels Bohr, Hannes Alfven and Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar and the many cultural inspirations that have brought us to the brink of achieving controlled fusion in the laboratory. He charts the Universe stopping en route to explain how fusion and its vehicle, plasma physics, lies behind some of the most awe-inspiring phenomena in the Cosmos from jets and quasars to the beautiful Aurora Borealis - the Northern Lights."--Jacket.
