Fantastic realities : 49 mind journeys and a trip to Stockholm / / Frank Wilczek, with a contribution from Betsy Devine.
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Year of Publication: | 2006 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | ix, 522 p. :; ill. (some col.). |
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100 | 1 | |a Wilczek, Frank. | |
245 | 1 | 0 | |a Fantastic realities |h [electronic resource] : |b 49 mind journeys and a trip to Stockholm / |c Frank Wilczek, with a contribution from Betsy Devine. |
260 | |a Hackensack, N.J. : |b World Scientific, |c c2006. | ||
300 | |a ix, 522 p. : |b ill. (some col.). | ||
504 | |a Includes bibliographical references. | ||
505 | 0 | |a Constructing this world, and others. The world's numerical recipe ; Analysis and synthesis 1: What matters for matter ; Analysis and synthesis 2: Universal characteristics ; Analysis and synthesis 3: Cosmic groundwork ; Analysis and synthesis 4: Limits and supplements. -- Musing on mechanics. Whence the force of F =ma? 1: Culture shock ; Whence the force of F =ma? 2: Rationalization ; Whence the force of F =ma? 3: Cultural diversity. -- Making light of mass. The origin of mass ; Mass without mass 1: Most of matter ; Mass without mass 2: The medium is the mass-age. -- QCD exposed. QCD made simple ; 10 p12 s degrees in the shade ; Back to basics at ultrahigh temperatures. -- Breathless at the heights. Scaling Mount Planck 1: A view from the bottom ; Scaling Mount Planck 2: Base camp ; Scaling Mount Planck 3: Is that all there is? -- At sea in the depths. What is quantum theory? ; Total relativity: Mach 2004 ; Life's parameters. -- Once and future history. The Dirac equation ; Fermi and the elucidation of matter ; The standard model transcended ; Masses and molasses ; In search of symmetry lost ; From 'Not wrong' to (maybe) right ; Unification of couplings. -- Methods of our madness. The social benefit of high energy physics ; When words fail ; Why are there analogies between condensed matter and particle theory? ; The persistence of ether ; Reaching bottom, laying foundations. -- Inspired, irritated, inspired. What did Bohr do? ; Dreams of a final theory ; Shadows of the mind ; The inflationary universe ; Is the sky made from Pi? -- Big ideas. Quantum field theory ; Some basic aspects of fractional quantum numbers. -- Grand occasions. From concept to reality to vision ; Nobel biography ; Asymptotic freedom: from paradox to paradigm ; Advice to students. -- Breaking into verse. Virtual particles ; Gluon rap ; Reply in sonnet form ; From beneath an e-avalanche ; Frog sonnet ; Archaeopteryx. -- Another dimension. Nobel blog: a year in the life. | |
533 | |a Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries. | ||
650 | 0 | |a Physics |v Miscellanea. | |
655 | 4 | |a Electronic books. | |
700 | 1 | |a Devine, Betsy. | |
710 | 2 | |a ProQuest (Firm) | |
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