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"Worlds Within Worlds: The Story of Nuclear Energy2"는 아이작 아시모프(Isaac Asimov)가 1972년에 쓴 책이다. 이 책은 원자력에 대한 이해와 그 역사를 다루고 있다. 아시모프는 과학적인 주제에 대한 이해를 넓히고자 하는 독자들을 위해 이 책을 쓰게 되었다. 원자력이 어떻게 발견되었는지부터 원자로와 핵발전소의 작동 원리, 그리고 핵에너지의 활용 방법에 이르기까지 다양한 주제를 다루고 있다. 이 책은 원자력과 관련된 중요한 개념과 역사를 쉽게 이해할 수 있도록 설명되어 있다.


"Worlds Within Worlds: The Story of Nuclear Energy 2" is a book written by Isaac Asimov in 1972. This book deals with the understanding of nuclear energy and its history. Asimov wrote this book for readers who want to expand their understanding of scientific topics. It covers a variety of topics, from how nuclear energy was discovered, to the operating principles of nuclear reactors and nuclear power plants, and how to utilize nuclear energy. This book explains important concepts and history related to nuclear energy in an easy-to-understand manner.

Summary
A field-ion microscope view of atoms in a crystal. Each tiny white dot is a single atom, and each ring system is a crystal facet or plane. The picture is magnified 1,500,000 times.

In 1900 it began to dawn on physicists that there was a vast store of energy within the atom; a store no one earlier had imagined existed. The sheer size of the energy store in the atom?millions of times that known to exist in the form of chemical energy?seemed unbelievable at first. Yet that size quickly came to make sense as a result of a line of research that seemed, at the beginning, to have nothing to do with energy.

Contents
1.Mass and Energy

2.The Structure of the Nucleus
1)The Proton
2)The Proton-Electron Theory
3)Protons in Nuclei
4)Nuclear Bombardment
5)Particle Accelerators

3.The Neutron
1)Nuclear Spin
2)Discovery of the Neutron
3)The Proton-Neutron Theory
4)The Nuclear Interaction
5)Neutron Bombardment