Longing for the Harmonies Themes and Variations from Modern Physics

Name: Longing for the Harmonies Themes and Variations from Modern Physics
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ISBN: 9780393305968

ISBN-10: 0393305961

ISBN-13: 9780393305968

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Authors: Frank Wilczek, Betsy Devine

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List price: $17.95
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 4/17/1989
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 384
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.21" long x 1.22" tall
Weight: 0.924
Language: English



Introduction


Acknowledgments



Reply to Keats (on the Rainbow)



The Nature of Color: We Are All Color-Blind



Spectra: Music of the Spheres



Earth-Stuff and Star-Stuff


Rhapsody on N (the World Between)



Radical Conservatism



The Cosmic Order of Galaxies


Doppler Shift



Expansion and Uniformity



Inferno and Afterglow


Three Ages



Treiman's Theorem



New Star



The Weak Interaction


Ego and Survival



Levels of Equilibrium



Universal Chemistry (or, the Battle Between Entropy and Energy)



Cooking with Gobar (or, the Energy Strikes Back)



Explosions and Fluorescence (or, Entropy's Revenge)



In the First Circle



Light as Waves



Light as Lumps



Laves



Branching Worlds


Frustration and Uncertainty


A Quantum Lottery



Back to Pythagoras



The Indistinguishable



Fields


Maxwell Redux



The Search for Depth



Antimatter



Quarks: a Peculiar Chemistry



Colour



Gluons


How Asymptotic Freedom Discovered Me



Asymptotic Freedom


In Praise of Qcd



Relative and Absolute



Interchangeable Worlds



More Perfect Worlds



A Suggested Unity


Coda: About the Table



Salt Mine



A Little Matter



Genesis Machines



Horizons



Inflation



No Firm Foundation



Families



Dark Matter



Hidden Harmonies


Notes


Index