The lightness of being : mass, ether, and the unification of forces /

Physicist' understanding of the essential nature of reality changed radically over the past quarter century. Frank Wilczek has played a lead role in establishing the new paradigms. Transcending the clash and mismatch of older ideas about what matter is, and what space is, Wilczek presents here...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Wilczek, Frank
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, NY : Basic Books, ©2008.
Temas:
Mass (Physics)
Matter.
Ether (Space)
Masse (Physique)
Matière.
Éther (Espace)
SCIENCE > Mechanics > General.
SCIENCE > Mechanics > Solids.
Matter
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • About the title
  • Reader's guide
  • pt. I. The origin of mass
  • Getting to It
  • Newton's zeroth law
  • Einstein's second law
  • What matters for matter
  • The hydra within
  • The bits within the its
  • Symmetry incarnate
  • The grid (persistence of ether)
  • Computing matter
  • The origin of mass
  • The music of the grid : a poem in two equations
  • Profound simplicity
  • pt. II. The feebleness of gravity
  • Is gravity feeble? : Yes (in practice)
  • Is gravity feeble? : No (in theory)
  • The right question
  • A beautiful answer
  • pt. III. Is beauty truth?
  • Unification : the siren's song
  • Unification : through a glass, darkly
  • Truthification
  • Unification [loves] SUSY
  • Anticipating a new golden age
  • Epilogue: A smooth pebble, a pretty shell
  • Appendix A: Particles have mass, the world has energy
  • Appendix B: The multilayered, multicolored cosmic superconductor
  • Appendix C: From "not wrong" to (maybe) right
  • Glossary.

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