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Mass (Physics).
Matter -- Properties.
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Baggott, J. E.
Mass (Physics).
Matter -- Properties.
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Mass : the quest to understand matter from Greek atoms to quantum fields / Jim Baggott.
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Baggott, J. E.
Oxford University Press, 2017.
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530
B144m
Subjects
Mass (Physics).
Matter -- Properties.
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9780198759713
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First Edition.
Description:
xvi, 346 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-324) and index.
Contents:
Part I. Atom and void. The quiet citadel ; Things-in-themselves ; An impression of force ; The sceptical chymists -- Part II. Mass and energy. A very interesting conclusion ; Incommensurable ; The fabric ; In the heart of darkness -- Part III. Wave and particle. An act of desperation ; The wave equation ; The only mystery ; Mass bare and dressed -- Part IV. Field and force. The symmetries of nature ; The Goddamn particle ; The Standard Model ; Mass without mass.
Summary:
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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