| Description |
xi, 270 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm |
| Note |
Includes index. |
| Contents |
About the title -- Reader's guide -- pt. I. The origin of mass -- Getting to It -- Newton's zeroth law -- Einstein's second law -- What matters for matter -- The hydra within -- The bits within the its -- Symmetry incarnate --The grid (persistence of ether) -- Computing matter -- The origin of mass -- The music of the grid : a poem in two equations -- Profound simplicity -- pt. II. The feebleness of gravity -- Is gravity feeble? : Yes (in practice) -- Is gravity feeble? : No (in theory) -- The right question -- A beautiful answer -- pt. III. Is beauty truth? -- Unification : the siren's song -- Unification : through a glass, darkly -- Truthification -- Unification [loves] SUSY -- Anticipating a new golden age -- Epilogue: A smooth pebble, a pretty shell -- Appendix A: Particles have mass, the world has energy -- Appendix B: The multilayered, multicolored cosmic superconductor -- Appendix C: From "not wrong" to (maybe) right -- Glossary. |
| Subject |
Mass (Physics)
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Matter.
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Ether (Space)
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| ISBN |
9780465003211: $26.95 |
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0465003214: $26.95 |
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