Fearful Symmetry (eBook)

The Search for Beauty in Modern Physics

Anthony Zee (Autor)

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2015
376 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-7450-7 (ISBN)

Infos

An engaging exploration of beauty in physics, with a foreword by Nobel Prize-winning physicist Roger PenroseThe concept of symmetry has widespread manifestations and many diverse applications-from architecture to mathematics to science. Yet, as twentieth-century physics has revealed, symmetry has a special, central role in nature, one that is occasionally and enigmatically violated. Fearful Symmetry brings the incredible discoveries of the juxtaposition of symmetry and asymmetry in contemporary physics within everyone's grasp. A. Zee, a distinguished physicist and skillful expositor, tells the exciting story of how contemporary theoretical physicists are following Einstein in their search for the beauty and simplicity of Nature. Animated by a sense of reverence and whimsy, Fearful Symmetry describes the majestic sweep and accomplishments of twentieth-century physics-one of the greatest chapters in the intellectual history of humankind.

Autor

A. Zee is professor of physics at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His books include Quantum Field Theory in a Nutshell and Einstein Gravity in a Nutshell (both Princeton).

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.10.2015
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Science Library
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Science Library
• Vorwort: Roger Penrose
• Zusatzinfo: 10 halftones. 47 line illus.
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Atom- / Kern- / Molekularphysik
• Schlagworte: 2020 Nobel laureates • 2020 Nobel laureates in physics • 2020 Nobel Prize in physics • Abdus Salam • Albert Einstein • Andrea Ghez • Annus Mirabilis papers • Antimatter • Arthur Eddington • asymptotic freedom • Atomic Nucleus • Atomic physics • atomic theory • Available energy (particle collision) • Black Holes • Bottom quark • Brane • Carlo Rubbia • Celestial mechanics • Chen-Ning Yang • Classical physics • cosmological constant • Coulomb's Law • CP violation • David Gross • Dirac equation • Down quark • Eightfold Way (physics) • Einstein • electromagnetism • Equivalence Principle • Eugene Wigner • Explicit symmetry breaking • Fermion • Feynman diagram • Frank Wilczek • Galilean Transformation • Gauge boson • Gauge Theory • general covariance • General relativity • general theory of relativity • George Gamow • Global symmetry • Grand unification energy • Gravitational Field • Graviton • Gravity • Hadron • Heinz Pagels • Hermann Weyl • hyperon • Isospin • John Iliopoulos • Julian Schwinger • Lee Smolin • length scale • Lepton • Local symmetry • Lorentz covariance • Luciano Maiani • Massless particle • Meson • Modern Physics • Murray Gell-Mann • Neutrino • Neutron • Newton's law of universal gravitation • Nucleon • Particle accelerator • Perturbation theory (quantum mechanics) • Peter Higgs • Photon • Physical law • physicist • positron • Pure Mathematics • quantum field theory • Quantum Gravity • quantum mechanics • quantum realm • Reinhard Genzel • relativistic mechanics • Relativity • renormalization • Richard Feynman • Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences • Sam Treiman • scattering • Schrödinger equation • Sidney Coleman • Simon van der Meer • Special relativity • Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking • Steven Weinberg • Stockholm • Strange matter • strangeness • Strong Interaction • Superpartner • Superstring Theory • symmetry breaking • Theodor Kaluza • theoretical physics • theory • Theory of relativity • Thought experiment • Tom Kibble • Up quark • Weak Interaction • X and Y bosons • Yang–Mills Theory • Yoichiro Nambu
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-7450-5 / 1400874505
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-7450-7 / 9781400874507