The lightness of being : mass, ether, and the unification of forces
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The lightness of being : mass, ether, and the unification of forces
Basic Books, 2010
- : pbk
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Includes index
"Hardcover ed. first published in 2008"--T.p. verso
収録内容
- 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
内容説明・目次
内容説明
Our understanding of nature's deepest reality has changed radically, but almost without our noticing, over the past twenty-five years. Transcending the clash of older ideas about matter and space, acclaimed physicist Frank Wilczek explains a remarkable new discovery: matter is built from almost weightless units, and pure energy is the ultimate source of mass. He calls it The Lightness of Being." Space is no mere container, empty and passive. It is a dynamic Grid,a modern ether, and its spontaneous activity creates and destroys particles. This new understanding of mass explains the puzzling feebleness of gravity, and a gorgeous unification of all the forces comes sharply into focus. The Lightness of Being is the first book to explore the implications of these revolutionary ideas about mass, energy, and the nature of empty space." In it, Wilczek masterfully presents new perspectives on our incredible universe and envisions a new golden age of fundamental physics.
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