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Deep Down Things: The Breathtaking Beauty of Particle Physics
Bruce A. Schumm
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Hardback. Introducing readers to the world of particle physics, Deep Down Things opens new realms within which are many clues to unraveling the mysteries of the universe. Num Pages: 392 pages, 69, 69 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: PHP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 243 x 169 x 29. Weight in Grams: 704.
A useful scientific theory, claimed Einstein, must be explicable to any intelligent person. In Deep Down Things, experimental particle physicist Bruce Schumm has taken this dictum to heart, providing in clear, straightforward prose an elucidation of the Standard Model of particle physics-a theory that stands as one of the crowning achievements of twentieth-century science. In this one-of-a-kind book, the work of many of the past century's most notable physicists, including Einstein, Schrodinger, Heisenberg, Dirac, Feynman, Gell-Mann, and Weinberg, is knit together in a thorough and accessible exposition of the revolutionary notions that underlie our current view of the fundamental nature of the physical world. Schumm, who has spent much of his life emmersed in the subatomic world, goes far beyond a mere presentation of the "building blocks" of matter, bringing to life the remarkable connection between the ivory tower world of the abstract mathematician and the day-to-day, life-enabling properties of the natural world. Schumm leaves us with an insight into the profound open questions of particle physics, setting the stage for understanding the progress the field is poised to make over the next decade or two. Introducing readers to the world of particle physics, Deep Down Things opens new realms within which are many clues to unraveling the mysteries of the universe.
Product Details
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
392
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Condition
New
Number of Pages
392
Place of Publication
Baltimore, MD, United States
ISBN
9780801879715
SKU
V9780801879715
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About Bruce A. Schumm
Bruce A. Schumm is a professor of physics at the University of California at Santa Cruz.
Reviews for Deep Down Things: The Breathtaking Beauty of Particle Physics
A fascinating journey into the bizarre, subatomic world of particle physics. PhysOrg.com 2004 Quantum field theory, group theory, Lie algebras, internal symmetry spaces and gauge theory. [Schumm] does a remarkably good job of explaining all this, with a style that is mercifully plain.
Peter de Groot New Scientist 2005 Explores the world of particle physics in terms laymen can understand. Santa Cruz Sentinel 2005 I expect that any physics undergraduate, bewildered by textbooks and lectures, would find this a delight.
Stephen Battersby New Scientist 2005 One of several recently published books attempting to provide for interested nonphysicists a relatively nonmathematical account of what has come to be called the standard model of particle physics... Schumm's treatment is perhaps more detailed. Choice 2005 This is definitely a book for your Christmas list, and if it doesn't excite your mathematics colleagues too, they'll miss a treat.
Rick Marshall School Science Review 2006 This book is beautifully written and is a didactic masterpiece.
David Watts Science and Christian Belief 2006
Peter de Groot New Scientist 2005 Explores the world of particle physics in terms laymen can understand. Santa Cruz Sentinel 2005 I expect that any physics undergraduate, bewildered by textbooks and lectures, would find this a delight.
Stephen Battersby New Scientist 2005 One of several recently published books attempting to provide for interested nonphysicists a relatively nonmathematical account of what has come to be called the standard model of particle physics... Schumm's treatment is perhaps more detailed. Choice 2005 This is definitely a book for your Christmas list, and if it doesn't excite your mathematics colleagues too, they'll miss a treat.
Rick Marshall School Science Review 2006 This book is beautifully written and is a didactic masterpiece.
David Watts Science and Christian Belief 2006