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Lightness of Being: Mass, Ether, and the Unification of Forces
Physicist’ understanding of the essential nature of reality changed radically over the past quarter century. Frank Wilczek has played a lead role in establishing the new paradigms. Transcending the clash and mismatch of older ideas about what matter is, and what space is, Wilczek presents here some brilliant and clear syntheses. Space is a dynamic material, the engine of reality; matter is a subtle pattern of disturbance in that material. Extraordinarily readable and authoritative, The Lightness of Being is the first book to unwrap these exciting new ideas for the general public. It explores their implications for basic questions about space, mass, energy, and the longed-for possibility of a fully unified theory of Nature. Along the way, Wilczek presents new perspectives on many strange aspects of our fantastic universe. Pointing toward new directions where the great discoveries in fundamental physics are likely to come, he envisions a new Golden Age in physics. .
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Longing for the Harmonies: Themes and Variations from Modern Physics
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Fantastic Realities: 49 Mind Journeys And a Trip to Stockholm
The fantastic reality that is modern physics is open for your exploration, guided by one of its primary architects and interpreters, Nobel Prize winner Frank Wilczek Some jokes, some poems, and extracts from wife Betsy Devine's sparkling chronicle of what it's like to live through a Nobel Prize provide easy entertainment. There's also some history, some philosophy, some exposition of frontier science, and some frontier science, for your lasting edification. 49 pieces, including many from Wilczek's award-winning Reference Frame columns in Physics Today, and some never before published, are gathered by style and subject into a dozen chapters, each with a revealing, witty introduction. Profound ideas, presented with style: What could be better? Enjoy..
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'National greatness' versus real national greatness.(COMMENT)(Large Hadron Collider)(Viewpoint essay): An article from: Science News
This digital document is an article from Science News, published by Science Service, Inc. on October 11, 2008. The length of the article is 817 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser. Citation DetailsTitle: 'National greatness' versus real national greatness.(COMMENT)(Large Hadron Collider)(Viewpoint essay) Author: Frank Wilczek Publication:Science News (Magazine/Journal) Date: October 11, 2008 Publisher: Science Service, Inc. Volume: 174 Issue: 8 Page: 32(1) Article Type: Viewpoint essay Distributed by Gale, a part of Cengage Learning.
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The Kept Secret
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Geometric Phases in Physics (Advanced Series in Mathematical Physics, Vol 5)
During the last few years, considerable interest has been focused on the phase that waves accumulate when the equations governing the waves vary slowly. The recent flurry of activity was set off by a paper by Michael Berry, where it was found that the adiabatic evolution of energy eigenfunctions in quantum mechanics contains a phase of geometric origin (now known as 'Berry's phase') in addition to the usual dynamical phase derived from Schrodinger's equation. This observation, though basically elementary, seems to be quite profound. Phases with similar mathematical origins have been identified and found to be important in a startling variety of physical contexts, ranging from nuclear magnetic resonance and low-Reynolds number hydrodynamics to quantum field theory. This volume is a collection of original papers and reprints, with commentary, on the subject..
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