The Search for a Theory of Matter
Author: Mendel Sachs
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Published: 1971
Total Pages: 232
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Contemporary Kinetic Theory of Matter
Author: J. R. Dorfman
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2021-06-24
Total Pages: 667
ISBN-13: 0521895472
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA thorough examination of kinetic theory and its successes in understanding and describing irreversible phenomena in physical systems.
Nature's Blueprint
Author: Dan Hooper
Publisher: Smithsonian
Published: 2008-09-16
Total Pages: 248
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe first accessible book on a theory of physics that explains the relationship between the particles and forces that make up our universe. For decades, physicists have been fascinated with the possibility that two seemingly independent aspects of our world—matter and force—may in fact be intimately connected and inseparable facets of nature. This idea, known as supersymmetry, is considered by many physicists to be one of the most beautiful and elegant theories ever conceived. According to this theory, however, there is much more to our universe than we have witnessed thus far. In particular, supersymmetry predicts that for each type of particle there must also exist others, called superpartners. To the frustration of many particle physicists, no such superpartner particles have ever been observed. As the world's most powerful particle accelerator—the Large Hadron Collider—begins operating in 2008, this may be about to change. By discovering the forms of matter predicted by supersymmetry, this incredible machine is set to transform our current understanding of the universe's laws and structure, and overturn the way that we think about matter, force, space, and time. Nature's Blueprint explores the reasons why supersymmetry is so integral to how we understand our world and describes the incredible machines used in the search for it. In an engaging and accessible style, it gives readers a glimpse into the symmetries, patterns, and very structure behind the universe and its laws.
Condensed Matter Field Theory
Author: Alexander Altland
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2010-03-11
Total Pages: 785
ISBN-13: 0521769752
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis primer is aimed at elevating graduate students of condensed matter theory to a level where they can engage in independent research. Topics covered include second quantisation, path and functional field integration, mean-field theory and collective phenomena.
Particle Or Wave
Author: Charis Anastopoulos
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 444
ISBN-13: 9780691135120
DOWNLOAD EBOOK'Particle or Wave' explains the origins and development of modern physical concepts about matter and the controversies surrounding them.
The Search for a Theory of Matter
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Published: 1971
Total Pages: 221
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Author: Bertrand Russell
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Published: 1927
Total Pages: 428
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAre We There Yet? The Search for a Theory of Everything
Author: Moataz H. Emam
Publisher: Bentham Science Publishers
Published: 2011-03-25
Total Pages: 130
ISBN-13: 1608052141
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWe live in exciting times. the frontiers of physics have been pushed to unprecedented horizons. the Holy Grail of fundamental physics research today is to find and describe a theory that explains, at least in principle, all physical phenomena, which in turns explains chemistry, biology and other material sciences. This, however, is not without controversy. the current candidate for such a theory is known as string or superstring theory. It suffers from the problem of being a purely mathematical science with no experimental backing and belief in it has been criticized as bordering on "faith" as opposed to scientific scrutiny. On the other hand the recent switching-on of our most advanced experimental tool, the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland, gives new hope in our search for clues as to what the universe is made of on a fundamental level. What happened exactly on, or even before, the Big Bang? Where are we coming from and where are we going? Questions that have never been addressed before by physicists. the game is afoot and the search is on. This book contains articles by leading physicists describing the current situation. Among them are proponents as well as opponents of string theory, proponents of other ideas, and experimentalists.
Connecting Quarks with the Cosmos
Author: National Research Council
Publisher: National Academies Press
Published: 2003-03-12
Total Pages: 222
ISBN-13: 030917113X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAdvances made by physicists in understanding matter, space, and time and by astronomers in understanding the universe as a whole have closely intertwined the question being asked about the universe at its two extremesâ€"the very large and the very small. This report identifies 11 key questions that have a good chance to be answered in the next decade. It urges that a new research strategy be created that brings to bear the techniques of both astronomy and sub-atomic physics in a cross-disciplinary way to address these questions. The report presents seven recommendations to facilitate the necessary research and development coordination. These recommendations identify key priorities for future scientific projects critical for realizing these scientific opportunities.
Theories of Matter, Space and Time
Author: Nick Evans
Publisher: Morgan & Claypool Publishers
Published: 2018-01-09
Total Pages: 107
ISBN-13: 1681746999
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book and its sequel (Theories of Matter Space and Time: Quantum Theories) are taken from third and fourth year undergraduate Physics courses at Southampton University, UK. The aim of both books is to move beyond the initial courses in classical mechanics, special relativity, electromagnetism, and quantum theory to more sophisticated views of these subjects and their interdependence. The goal is to guide undergraduates through some of the trickier areas of theoretical physics with concise analysis while revealing the key elegance of each subject. The first chapter introduces the key areas of the principle of least action, an alternative treatment of Newtownian dynamics, that provides new understanding of conservation laws. In particular, it shows how the formalism evolved from Fermat's principle of least time in optics. The second introduces special relativity leading quickly to the need and form of four-vectors. It develops four-vectors for all kinematic variables and generalize Newton's second law to the relativistic environment; then returns to the principle of least action for a free relativistic particle. The third chapter presents a review of the integral and differential forms of Maxwell's equations before massaging them to four-vector form so that the Lorentz boost properties of electric and magnetic fields are transparent. Again, it then returns to the action principle to formulate minimal substitution for an electrically charged particle.
