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In search of the ultimate building blocks /
This is a first-hand account of one of the most creative and exciting periods of discovery in the history of physics. From 1965 until 1990 theoreticians and experimentalists worked together to probe deeper and deeper into the basic structure of reality, moving closer and closer to an understanding o...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge ; New York, NY, USA :
Cambridge University Press,
1997.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Foreword: an apology; 1 The beginning of the journey to the small: cutting paper; 2 To molecules and atoms; 3 The magical mystery of the quanta; 4 Dazzling velocities; 5 The elementary particle zoo before 1970; 6 Life and death; 7 The crazy kaons; 8 The invisible quarks; 9 Fields or bootstraps?; 10 The Yang-Mills bonanza; 11 Superconducting empty space: the Higgs-Kibble machine; 12 Models; 13 Coloring in the strong forces; 14 The magnetic monopole; 15 Gypsy; 16 The brilliance of the Standard Model; 17 Anomalies
- 18 Deceptive perfection19 Weighing neutrinos; 20 The Great Desert; 21 Technicolor; 22 Grand unification; 23 Supergravity; 24 Eleven-dimensional space-time; 25 Attaching the superstring; 26 Into the black hole; 27 Theories that do not yet exist ... ; 28 Dominance of the rule of the smallest; Glossary; Index