Mass : (Record no. 30028)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9780198759713
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 530.143 BAG-J
100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Baggott, Jim
245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Mass :
Remainder of title the quest to understand matter from Greek atoms to quantum fields /
Statement of responsibility, etc. Baggott, Jim
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT)
Place of publication, distribution, etc. New York
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. Oxford University Press
Date of publication, distribution, etc. 2017
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent 346 p.
365 ## - TRADE PRICE
Price type code INR
Price amount 595.00.
500 ## - GENERAL NOTE
General note Everything around us is made of 'stuff', from planets, to books, to our own bodies. Whatever it is, we call it matter or material substance. It is solid; it has mass. But what is matter, exactly? We are taught in school that matter is not continuous, but discrete. As a few of the philosophers of ancient Greece once speculated, nearly two and a half thousand years ago, matter comes in 'lumps', and science has relentlessly peeled away successive layers of matter to reveal its ultimate constituents. <br/><br/>Surely, we can't keep doing this indefinitely. We imagine that we should eventually run up against some kind of ultimately fundamental, indivisible type of stuff, the building blocks from which everything in the Universe is made. The English physicist Paul Dirac called this 'the dream of philosophers'. But science has discovered that the foundations of our Universe are not as solid or as certain and dependable as we might have once imagined. They are instead built from ghosts and phantoms, of a peculiar quantum kind. And, at some point on this exciting journey of scientific discovery, we lost our grip on the reassuringly familiar concept of mass. <br/><br/>How did this happen? How did the answers to our questions become so complicated and so difficult to comprehend? In Mass Jim Baggott explains how we come to find ourselves here, confronted by a very different understanding of the nature of matter, the origin of mass, and its implications for our understanding of the material world. Ranging from the Greek philosophers Leucippus and Democritus, and their theories of atoms and void, to the development of quantum field theory and the discovery of a Higgs boson-like particle, he explores our changing understanding of the nature of matter, and the fundamental related concept of mass.
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Particles (Nuclear physics)
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Quantum field theory
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Relativity (Physics)
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Mass (Physics)
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Matter
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