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1 online resource (320 pages) |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Everything around us is made of 'stuff', from planets, to books, to our own bodies. Whatever it is, we call it matter or material substance. It is solid; it has mass. But what is matter, exactly? We are taught in school that matter is not continuous, but discrete. As a few of the philosophers of ancient Greece once speculated, nearly two and a half thousand years ago, matter comes in 'lumps', and science has relentlessly peeled away successive layers of matter to reveal its ultimate constituents. |
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Cover; Mass: The quest to understand matter from Greek atoms to quantum fields; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; List of Figures; About the Author; Part I. ATOM AND VOID; 1. The Quiet Citadel; Five things we learned; 2. Things-in-Themselves; Five things we learned; 3. An Impression of Force; Five things we learned; 4. The Sceptical Chymists; Five things we learned; Part II. MASS AND ENERGY; 5. A Very Interesting Conclusion; Five things we learned; 6. Incommensurable; Five things we learned; 7. The Fabric; Five things we learned; 8. In the Heart of Darkness; Five things we learned. |
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PART III. WAVE AND PARTICLE9. An Act of Desperation; Five things we learned; 10. The Wave Equation; Five things we learned; 11. The Only Mystery; Five things we learned; 12. Mass Bare and Dressed; Five things we learned; PART IV. FIELD AND FORCE; 13. The Symmetries of Nature; Five things we learned; 14. The Goddamn Particle; Five things we learned; 15. The Standard Model; Five things we learned; 16. Mass Without Mass; Five things we learned; EPILOGUE; ENDNOTES; Preface; Chapter 1: The Quiet Citadel; Chapter 2: Things-in-Themselves; Chapter 3: An Impression of Force. |
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Chapter 4: The Sceptical ChymistsChapter 5: A Very Interesting Conclusion; Chapter 6: Incommensurable; Chapter 7: The Fabric; Chapter 8: In the Heart of Darkness; Chapter 9: An Act of Desperation; Chapter 10: The Wave Equation; Chapter 11: The Only Mystery; Chapter 12: Mass Bare and Dressed; Chapter 13: The Symmetries of Nature; Chapter 14: The Goddamn Particle; Chapter 15: The Standard Model; Chapter 16: Mass Without Mass; Epilogue; GLOSSARY; SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY; Anthologies; Biographies; Cosmology; General; History and Philosophy; Quantum Theory; Particle Physics. |
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PUBLISHER'S ACKNOWLEDGEMENTSINDEX; The Quantum Story: A history in 40 moments; Physics: A short history from quintessence to quarks; Neutrino; Origins. |
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eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Quantum field theory.
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Quantum field theory. |
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Relativity (Physics)
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Relativity (Physics) |
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Particles (Nuclear physics)
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Particles (Nuclear physics) |
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particle physics. |
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SCIENCE -- Essays. |
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SCIENCE -- Reference. |
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Electronic books.
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Print version: Baggott, Jim. Mass. The quest to understand matter from Greek atoms to quantum fields. Oxford : Oxford University Press (GBP) 2017 9780198759713 (OCoLC)960462739 |
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9780191077814 (electronic book) |
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019107781X (electronic book) |
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9780198759713 |
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0198759711 |
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