Deep Down Things: The Breathtaking Beauty of Particle Physics
by Bruce A. Schumm
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"In Deep Down Things, experimental particle physicist Bruce A. Schumm provides an elucidation of the Standard Model of particle physics - a theory that stands as one of the crowning achievements of twentieth-century science."--BOOK JACKET.Tags
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Believe it or not, this was my "beach read" for the summer. Lying on the dock reading this and watching the ocean waves, I was able to visualize the concepts of particle physics thanks to this book.
More difficult than many of the other popular expositions of the Standard Model (quarks, leptons, bosons). As elusive as ever, to me at least, is a completely understandable account of such aspects of quantum field theory as the gauge principle and the role of group-theoretic rotations in multiple complex dimensions.
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Bruce A. Schumm is a professor of physics at the University of California at Santa Cruz.
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- Deep Down Things: The Breathtaking Beauty of Particle Physics
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- Perl, Martin; Riordan, Michael
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