Theory of Almost Everything The Standard Model, the Unsung Triumph of Modern Physics

Name: Theory of Almost Everything The Standard Model, the Unsung Triumph of Modern Physics
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ISBN: 9780452287860

ISBN-10: 0452287863

ISBN-13: 9780452287860

Edition: 2006

Authors: Robert Oerter

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For fans of Brian Greene and Stephen Hawking, a guide to the most important theory in modern physics, in a tour de force of science writing There are two scientific theories that, taken together, explain the entire universe. The first, which describes the force of gravity, is widely known: Einsteins General Theory of Relativity. But the theory that explains everything elsethe Standard Model of Elementary Particlesis virtually unknown among the general public. In The Theory of Almost Everything, Robert Oerter shows how what were once thought to be separate forces of nature were combined into a single theory by some of the most brilliant minds of the twentieth century. Rich with accessible…

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List price: $17.00
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 9/26/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 336
Size: 5.51" wide x 8.34" long x 0.81" tall
Weight: 0.638
Language: English

ROBERT OERTERteaches physics at George Mason University. He has done research in the areas of supergravity, especially as applied to superstring theories, and in the quantum mechanics of chaotic systems.



Introduction



The First Unifications



Einstein's Relativity and Noether's Theorem



The End of the World As We Know It



(Im)probabilities



The Bizarre Reality of QED



Feynman's Particles, Schwinger's Fields



Welcome to the Subatomic Zoo



The Color of Quarks



The Weakest Link



The Standard Model, At Last



The Edge of Physics



New Dimensions



Quarks and the Eightfold Way



Asymptotic Freedom



Interactions of the Standard Model


Glossary


References


Further Reading


Index