Deep down things : The Breathtaking Beauty of Particle Physics
Deep down things : The Breathtaking Beauty of Particle Physics
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- x, 378 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
"In Deep Down Things, experimental particle physicist Bruce A. Schumm provides an elucidation of the Standard Model of particle physics - a theory that stands as one of the crowning achievements of twentieth-century science."--Jacket
Includes index.
Introduction --
The true movers & shakers: the forces of nature --
The great reawakening: the modern physics revolution --
The marriage of relativity & quantum theory: relativistic quantum field theory --
Patterns in nature: the fundamental building blocks --
Mathematical patterns: lie groups --
The world within: internal symmetries --
Physics by pure thought: gauge theory --
The current paradigm: hidden symmetry, the standard model & the Higgs Boson --
Into the unknown: what lies ahead.
Introducing readers to the world of particle physics, Deep Down Things opens new realms within which are many clues to unraveling the mysteries of the universe.
080187971-x
Particles (Nuclear physics) Quantum field theory. Gauge fields (Physics) Symmetry (Physics)
539.7/2 SCH-D
"In Deep Down Things, experimental particle physicist Bruce A. Schumm provides an elucidation of the Standard Model of particle physics - a theory that stands as one of the crowning achievements of twentieth-century science."--Jacket
Includes index.
Introduction --
The true movers & shakers: the forces of nature --
The great reawakening: the modern physics revolution --
The marriage of relativity & quantum theory: relativistic quantum field theory --
Patterns in nature: the fundamental building blocks --
Mathematical patterns: lie groups --
The world within: internal symmetries --
Physics by pure thought: gauge theory --
The current paradigm: hidden symmetry, the standard model & the Higgs Boson --
Into the unknown: what lies ahead.
Introducing readers to the world of particle physics, Deep Down Things opens new realms within which are many clues to unraveling the mysteries of the universe.
080187971-x
Particles (Nuclear physics) Quantum field theory. Gauge fields (Physics) Symmetry (Physics)
539.7/2 SCH-D