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000798527 1001_ $$aBaggott, J. E.,$$eauthor.
000798527 24510 $$aMass :$$bthe quest to understand matter from Greek atoms to quantum fields /$$cJim Baggott.
000798527 250__ $$aFirst Edition.
000798527 264_1 $$aOxford, United Kingdom :$$bOxford University Press,$$c2017.
000798527 264_4 $$c©2017
000798527 300__ $$axvi, 346 pages :$$billustrations ;$$c24 cm
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000798527 337__ $$aunmediated$$bn$$2rdamedia
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000798527 504__ $$aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 317-324) and index.
000798527 5050_ $$aPart I. Atom and void. The quiet citadel ; Things-in-themselves ; An impression of force ; The sceptical chymists -- Part II. Mass and energy. A very interesting conclusion ; Incommensurable ; The fabric ; In the heart of darkness -- Part III. Wave and particle. An act of desperation ; The wave equation ; The only mystery ; Mass bare and dressed -- Part IV. Field and force. The symmetries of nature ; The Goddamn particle ; The Standard Model ; Mass without mass.
000798527 5208_ $$aEverything around us is made of 'stuff', from planets, to books, to our own bodies. Whatever it is, we call it matter or material substance. It is solid; it has mass. But what is matter, exactly? We are taught in school that matter is not continuous, but discrete. As a few of the philosophers of ancient Greece once speculated, nearly two and a half thousand years ago, matter comes in 'lumps', and science has relentlessly peeled away successive layers of matter to reveal its ultimate constituents.
000798527 520__ $$a"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.
000798527 650_0 $$aMass (Physics)
000798527 650_0 $$aMatter$$xProperties.
000798527 650_0 $$aQuantum field theory.
000798527 650_0 $$aField theory (Physics)
000798527 650_0 $$aParticles (Nuclear physics)
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