FROM ATOMS TO HIGGS BOSONS : (Record no. 129228)

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International Standard Book Number 9780429651038
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International Standard Book Number 9780429648397
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International Standard Book Number 9780429645754
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Classification number 539.72
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Title FROM ATOMS TO HIGGS BOSONS :
Remainder of title voyages in quasi spacetime.
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Summary, etc The announcement in 2012 that the Higgs boson had been discovered was understood as a watershed moment for the Standard Model of particle physics. It was deemed a triumphant event in the reductionist quest that had begun centuries ago with the ancient Greek natural philosophers. Physicists basked in the satisfaction of explaining to the world that the ultimate cause of mass in our universe had been unveiled at CERN, Switzerland. The Standard Model of particle physics is now understood by many to have arrived at a satisfactory description of entities and interactions on the smallest physical scales: elementary quarks, leptons, and intermediary gauge bosons residing within a four-dimensional spacetime continuum. Throughout the historical journey of reductionist physics, mathematics has played an increasingly dominant role. Indeed, abstract mathematics has now become indispensable in guiding our discovery of the physical world. Elementary particles are endowed with abstract existence in accordance with their appearance in complicated equations. Heisenberg's uncertainty principle, originally intended to estimate practical measurement uncertainties, now bequeaths a numerical fuzziness to the structure of reality. Particle physicists have borrowed effective mathematical tools originally invented and employed by condensed matter physicists to approximate the complex structures and dynamics of solids and liquids and bestowed on them the authority to define basic physical reality. The discovery of the Higgs boson was a result of these kinds of strategies, used by particle physicists to take the latest steps on the reductionist quest. This book offers a constructive critique of the modern orthodoxy into which all aspiring young physicists are now trained, that the ever-evolving mathematical models of modern physics are leading us toward a truer understanding of the real physical world. The authors propose that among modern physicists, physical realism has been largely replaced--in actual practice--by quasirealism, a problematic philosophical approach that interprets the statements of abstract, effective mathematical models as providing direct information about reality. History may judge that physics in the twentieth century, despite its seeming successes, involved a profound deviation from the historical reductionist voyage to fathom the mysteries of the physical universe.
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Formatted contents note Cover; Half Title; Tilte Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; Preface; Introduction; 1. The Reductionist Vision of Physics; 1.1 Reductionism; 1.2 Our View of the World; 1.3 Democritus' Atoms; 1.4 Properties of Atoms in Early Physics; 1.5 The Descent into the Quark Model; 1.6 Contemporary Catalogue of Physical Things; 1.7 Have We Reached the Bottom?; 1.8 Defining the Bottom Rung of the Ladder; 1.9 Are Quarks Really at the Bottom?; 2. Quasirealism; 2.1 Common Sense; 2.2 Mathematics at the Centre; 2.3 Quasiparticles; 2.4 Quasirealism Defined; 2.5 Against Quasirealism
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Formatted contents note 2.6 Quasirealism and the Theory of Everything2.7 Concluding Thoughts; 3. Space, Time, and Relativity; 3.1 Ancient Concepts of Space and Time; 3.2 Philosophizing on Space and Time; 3.3 Newton's Absolute Space; 3.4 Lines of Force and Fields; 3.5 The Aether; 3.6 Lorentz-FitzGerald Contraction; 3.7 Special Relativity; 3.8 General Relativity; 3.9 Concluding Remarks; 4. Mathematical Spaces; 4.1 Space and N-Dimensional Spaces; 4.2 Space and Geometry; 4.3 Complex Numbers and Imaginary Planes; 4.4 Minkowski Spacetime; 4.5 Phase Space; 4.6 Hilbert Space; 4.7 String Theories and Multidimensional Space
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Formatted contents note 5. Mass5.1 Mass and Weight; 5.2 Mass and Relativity; 5.3 Mass of Small Things; 5.4 Modern Mass Measurements of Subatomic Particles; 5.5 Mass of Short-Lived Particles; 5.6 Mass of Resonances; 5.7 Mass of Quarks; 5.8 Mass of Higgs Boson; 5.9 Concluding Remarks on Mass; 6. Quantum Physics; 6.1 Statistical Microphysics and Waves; 6.2 Quantum Theory of the Atom; 6.3 What Evolves in Quantum Theory?; 7. When Is an Atom?; 7.1 The Classical Atom; 7.2 The Divisible Chemical Atom; 7.3 Protons and Neutrons Are Particles, but Are They Fundamental?
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Formatted contents note 7.4 The Electron Is Fundamental, but Is It Still a Particle?7.5 The Electron of Wave Mechanics; 7.6 Niels Bohr's Instrumentalist View; 7.7 Electrons in Quantum Electrodynamics; 7.8 Electrons in Bulk Matter; 7.9 In Summary: We May Still Have Atoms; 8. Elementary Quanta; 8.1 Fermions, Bosons, Quarks, and Leptons; 8.2 Quarks and Leptons Are Really Very Different; 8.3 On the Reality of Neutrinos; 8.4 On the Reality of Quarks; 8.5 The Gauge Bosons; 8.6 Summary; 9. What Is a Photon?; 9.1 Problem of Blackbody Radiation; 9.2 Photoelectric Effect; 9.3 Waves and Particles, Real and Virtual
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Formatted contents note 9.4 Other Lives of Photons9.5 Photons and Electroweak Unification; 9.6 Are Photons Phoenixes?; 9.7 Finally, What Are Photons?; 10. Symmetries, Conservation Laws, and Gauge Bosons; 10.1 Symmetry and Gauge; 10.2 Gauge Invariance and Electromagnetism; 10.3 Symmetry and Isospin; 10.4 Mixing of Matter and Interactions; 10.5 Conclusion; 11. Higgs Boson; 11.1 Knowing What We Cannot See; 11.2 Searching for the Higgs Boson; 11.3 Higgs Discovery; 11.4 Particle or Resonance?; 11.5 What Does the Higgs Boson Contribute?; 11.6 Conclusion; Epilogue; Appendix: Epitaph for All Photons; Index
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Particles (Nuclear physics)
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element SCIENCE / Astronomy
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element SCIENCE / Astrophysics & Space Science
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