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Deep Down Things: The Breathtaking Beauty of Particle Physics

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Deep Down Things: The Breathtaking Beauty of Particle Physics

by Bruce A Schumm

About this title: A useful scientific theory, claimed Einstein, must be explicable to any intelligent person. In Deep Down Things, experimental particle physicist Bruce A. 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 ... read more

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By Ardith, Tucson, AZ

"This is the BEST layman's explanation of particle physics. I can't recommend it too highly. Helped me appreciate the significance of some of the experiments that are ongoing at CERN etc such as the hunt for the Higgs boson. Got me thinking about the question: what is the speed of gravity? It's the speed of light...so how come you can calculate the trajectories of satellites without a delay time to account for finite speed of gravity? Mysterious, isn't it? Why is it that there is more matter than antimatter in the universe, but the net charge of the universe is exactly zero? What's so special about the weak nuclear force? Read this book and find out.
Also contains a beautifully intuitive explanation of the connection between the very abstract math of Lie groups/algebras and particle physics."

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