@article{798527,
      author = {Baggott, J. E.,},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/798527},
      title = {Mass : the quest to understand matter from Greek atoms to  quantum fields /},
      abstract = {"Albert Einstein once claimed that without belief in the  inner harmony of our world, there could be no science. But  modern science has revealed that the inner harmony of some  of the simplest phenomena can be startlingly beautiful in  its complexity. This is certainly true of matter, and its  most commonplace property, mass. We have come a long way  since the conjectures of the Greek atomists. We know for  sure that atoms exist, and we also know that they're  divisible. They consist of electrons, orbiting nuclei of  protons and neutrons. We know that protons and neutrons are  in turn composed of quarks. And we have found that  elementary particles inside atoms behave like waves:  mysterious phantoms of probability. We have identified  several families of subatomic particles, and now recognize  that 'empty' space fizzes with virtual particles. we think  now of mass in terms of the energies of interactions.  Elementary particles gain mass by interacting with the  Higgs field, revealed by the discovery of the Higgs boson,  but we still don't understand why some particles interact  more strongly than others. As Jim Baggott explains in this  absorbing account that takes us from atoms to quarks,  gluons, and quantum chromodynamics, we have journeyed far,  but we have yet to fully understand the fundamental nature  of mass."--Jacket.},
      recid = {798527},
      pages = {xvi, 346 pages :},
}