THE PHYSICS OF MODERN BRACHYTHERAPY FOR ONCOLOGY

The textbook written by Paul Davies in 19891 entitled, The New Physics, commenced with the following opinion. Many elderly scientists look back nostalgically at the first 30 years of the 20th century, and refer to it as the golden age of physics. Historians, however, may come to regard those years as the dawning of the New Physics. The events which the quantum and relativity theories set in train are only now impinging on science, and many physicists believe that the golden age was only the beginning of the revolution....