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Loading... Lightness of Being: Mass, Ether, and the Unification of Forcesby Frank Wilczek
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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. Recapitulating his unique take on quantum chromodynamics and related matters, Nobel-winner Wilczek here makes a stab at truly popular-level writing. But his deep expertise pokes through in many places and in many ways. Some advances that he thinks might not be far off: discovery of Higgs and supersymmetry particles, detection of proton decay, identification of dark matter. www.itsfrombits.com Empty space is not really empty, we may be living inside of some cosmic superconductor...some extremely mind-blowing things inside of this book. It will definitely require more than one reading for me to grasp all of what is being said. At the end of the day I look at the world a little differently because of this book, and that tells me that reading it was definitely worth while. no reviews | add a review
Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0465003214, Hardcover)Physicist’ understanding of the essential nature of reality changed radically over the past quarter century. Frank Wilczek has played a lead role in establishing the new paradigms. Transcending the clash and mismatch of older ideas about what matter is, and what space is, Wilczek presents here some brilliant and clear syntheses. Space is a dynamic material, the engine of reality; matter is a subtle pattern of disturbance in that material. Extraordinarily readable and authoritative, The Lightness of Being is the first book to unwrap these exciting new ideas for the general public. It explores their implications for basic questions about space, mass, energy, and the longed-for possibility of a fully unified theory of Nature. Along the way, Wilczek presents new perspectives on many strange aspects of our fantastic universe. Pointing toward new directions where the great discoveries in fundamental physics are likely to come, he envisions a new Golden Age in physics. (retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:57:54 -0400) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
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