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Fundamental forces of nature : the story of gauge fields /

"Gauge fields are the messengers carrying signals between elementary particles, enabling them to interact with each other. Originating at the level of quarks, these basic interactions percolate upwards, through nuclear and atomic physics, through chemical and solid state physics, to make our ev...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Huang, Kerson, 1928-2016 (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Singapore ; Hackensack, NJ : World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., [2007]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • What makes the world tick?
  • Electromagnetism
  • The vacuum is the medium
  • Let there be light
  • Heroic age: the struggle for quantum theory
  • Quantum reality
  • What is charge?
  • The zen of rotation
  • Yang-Mills field: non-commuting charges
  • Photons real and virtual
  • Creation and annihilation
  • The dynamical vacuum
  • Elementary particles
  • The fall of parity
  • The particle explosion
  • Quarks
  • All interactions are local
  • Broken symmetry
  • Quark confinement
  • Hanging threads of silk
  • The world in a grain of sand
  • In the space of all possible theories
  • Epilogue: beauty is truth.