Jim Baggott explores how our understanding of the nature of matter, and its fundamental property of mass, has developed, from the ancient Greek view of indivisible atoms to quantum mechanics, dark matter, the Higgs field, and beyond. He shows how the stuff of the universe is proving more elusive and uncertain than we ever imagined.
Jim Baggott explores how our understanding of the nature of matter, and its fundamental property of mass, has developed, from the ancient Greek view of indivisible atoms to quantum mechanics, dark matter, the Higgs field, and beyond. He shows how the stuff of the universe is proving more elusive and uncertain than we ever imagined.
Jim Baggott is a freelance science writer. He was a lecturer in chemistry at the University of Reading but left to work with Shell International Petroleum Company and then as an independent business consultant and trainer. His many books include Quantum Space: Loop Quantum Gravity and the Search for the Structure of Space, Time, and the Universe (OUP, 2018), Origins: The Scientific Story of Creation (OUP, 2015), Higgs: The Invention and Discovery of the 'God Particle' (OUP, 2012), A Quantum Story: A History in 40 Moments (OUP, 2011) and A Beginner's Guide to Reality (Penguin, 2005), Quantum Reality: The Quest for the Real Meaning of Quantum Mechanics - A Game of Theories (OUP, 2020), and The Quantum Cookbook: Mathematical Recipes for the Foundations of Quantum Mechanics (OUP, 2020).
Inhaltsangabe
Preface Part I: Atom and Void 1: The Quiet Citadel 2: Things-In-Themselves 3: An Impression of Force 4: The Sceptical Chymists Part II: Mass and Energy 5: A Very Interesting Conclusion 6: Incommensurable 7: The Fabric 8: In the Heart of Darkness Part III: Wave and Particle 9: An Act of Desperation 10: The Wave Equation 11: The Only Mystery 12: Mass Bare and Dressed Part IV: Field and Force 13: The Symmetries of Nature 14: The Goddamn Particle 15: The Standard Model 16: Mass without Mass Epilogue Endnotes Glossary Select Bibliography Index
Preface Part I: Atom and Void 1: The Quiet Citadel 2: Things-In-Themselves 3: An Impression of Force 4: The Sceptical Chymists Part II: Mass and Energy 5: A Very Interesting Conclusion 6: Incommensurable 7: The Fabric 8: In the Heart of Darkness Part III: Wave and Particle 9: An Act of Desperation 10: The Wave Equation 11: The Only Mystery 12: Mass Bare and Dressed Part IV: Field and Force 13: The Symmetries of Nature 14: The Goddamn Particle 15: The Standard Model 16: Mass without Mass Epilogue Endnotes Glossary Select Bibliography Index
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