The infinity puzzle [electronic resource] : quantum field theory and the hunt for an orderly universe / Frank Close.
Close, F. E.
2011
QC174.45 .C56 2011eb
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Title The infinity puzzle [electronic resource] : quantum field theory and the hunt for an orderly universe / Frank Close.
Author Close, F. E.
ISBN 9780465028030 (electronic bk.)
9780465021444
Publication Details New York : Basic Books, 2011.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (xii, 435 p.) : ill.
Call Number QC174.45 .C56 2011eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 530.14/3
Summary "Speculation is rife that by 2012 the elusive Higgs boson will be found at the Large Hadron Collider. If found, the Higgs boson would help explain why everything has mass. But there's more at stake-what we're really testing is our capacity to make the universe reasonable. Our best understanding of physics is predicated on something known as quantum field theory. Unfortunately, in its raw form, it doesn't make sense-its outputs are physically impossible infinite percentages when they should be something simpler, like the number 1. The kind of physics that the Higgs boson represents seeks to "renormalize" field theory, forcing equations to provide answers that match what we see in the real world. The Infinity Puzzle is the story of a wild idea on the road to acceptance. Only Close can tell it"-- Provided by publisher.
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Prologue : Amsterdam, 1971
Genesis. The point of infinity ; Shelter Island and QED ; Feynman, Schwinger,
and Tomonaga (and Dyson) ; Intermission : 1950 ; Abdus Salam : a strong beginning ; Yang, Mills,
and Shaw ; The identity of John Ward ; The marriage of weak and electromagnetic forces
to 1964 ; Intermission : 1960 ; Broken symmetries ; "The boson that has been named after me," a.k.a., the Higgs Boson ; Intermission : mid-1960s ; 1967 : from Kibble to Salam and Weinberg ; "And now I introduce Mr. 't Hooft" ; Intermission : early 1970s
Revelation. B.J. and the cosmic quarks ; A comedy of errors ; Intermission : 1975
Heavy light ; Warmly admired, richly deserved ; The big machine ; Intermission : end of the twentieth century ; To infinity and beyond.

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