The infinity puzzle : quantum field theory and the hunt for an orderly universe

The infinity puzzle : quantum field theory and the hunt for an orderly universe / Frank Close.

"Speculation is rife that by 2012 the elusive Higgs boson will be found at the Large Hadron Collider. If found, the Higgs boson would help explain why everything has mass. But there's more at stake-what we're really testing is our capacity to make the universe reasonable. Our best und...

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Main Author: Close, F. E.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Basic Books, ©2011.
Subjects:
Quantum field theory.
Higgs bosons.
Infinite.
infinity.
SCIENCE > History.
SCIENCE > Physics.
SCIENCE > Waves & Wave Mechanics.
Higgs bosons
Infinite
Quantum field theory
Physics > Research.
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Table of Contents:
  • Prologue : Amsterdam, 1971
  • part 1. Genesis. The point of infinity
  • Shelter Island and QED
  • Feynman, Schwinger,
  • and Tomonaga (and Dyson)
  • Intermission : 1950
  • Abdus Salam : a strong beginning
  • Yang, Mills,
  • and Shaw
  • The identity of John Ward
  • The marriage of weak and electromagnetic forces, to 1964
  • Intermission : 1960
  • Broken symmetries
  • "The boson that has been named after me," a.k.a., the Higgs Boson
  • Intermission : mid-1960s
  • 1967 : from Kibble to Salam and Weinberg
  • "And now I introduce Mr. 't Hooft"
  • Intermission : early 1970s
  • part 2. Revelation. B.J. and the cosmic quarks
  • A comedy of errors
  • Intermission : 1975
  • Heavy light
  • Warmly admired, richly deserved
  • The big machine
  • Intermission : end of the twentieth century
  • To infinity and beyond.

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