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

Frank Wilczek

Basic Books, 2010

  • : pbk

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注記

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

詳細情報

  • NII書誌ID(NCID)
    BB04095917
  • ISBN
    • 9780465018956
  • LCCN
    2008925224
  • 出版国コード
    us
  • タイトル言語コード
    eng
  • 本文言語コード
    eng
  • 出版地
    New York, N.Y.
  • ページ数/冊数
    xi, 270 p., [4] p. of plates
  • 大きさ
    24 cm
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