The Perfect Wave : : With Neutrinos at the Boundary of Space and Time / / Heinrich Päs.
Almost weightless and able to pass through the densest materials with ease, neutrinos may offer answers to questions ranging from relativity and quantum mechanics to more radical theories about dark energy and supersymmetry. Heinrich Päs serves as our fluent guide to a particle world that tests the...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2014] ©2014 |
| Year of Publication: | 2014 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (312 p.) :; 62 halftones, 2 tables |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- 1 Dawn Patrol in Honolulu
- 2 Eleusis, Plato, Magic Mushrooms
- 3 Quantum Physics: Th e Multiverse of Parmenides
- 4 Black Dots on a White Background: Th e Particle World
- 5 Beyond the Desert: Symmetries and Unifi cation
- 6 From Symmetry Breaking to Supersymmetry
- 7 Birth of an Outlaw: Th e Neutrino
- 8 Nuclear Decays a Th ousand Meters Underground
- 9 New Physics Is Falling from the Skies
- 10 Cosmic Connections
- 11 Neutrinos: Key to the Universe
- 12 Extra Dimensions, Strings, and Branes
- 13 Einstein's Heritage: What Is Time?
- 14 How to Build a Time Machine
- 15 Against Hawking and the Timekeepers
- 16 Into the Wilderness of the Terascale
- 17 Epilogue: Major Tom and the Singing Socrates
- Notes
- Further Reading
- Acknowledgments
- Index