The Search for Superstrings, Symmetry, and the Theory of Everything

Gribbin, John

ISBN 10: 0316326143 / ISBN 13: 9780316326148

Editore: Back Bay Books, 2000

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• Titolo: The Search for Superstrings, Symmetry, and the Theory of Everything
• Editore: Back Bay Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 2000
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0316326143
• ISBN 13: 9780316326148
• Rilegatura: paperback
• Condizione: Very Good

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Since Einstein's time, a "theory of everything" -- one coherent mathematical model that would encompass all the forces and particles of nature -- has become the Holy Grail of physics, and its pursuit has resulted in some of the most extraordinary ideas in the history of science.

This invaluable primer at last enables all of us to understand these ideas. John Gribbin provides a brief, succinct, accessible overview of the hundred-year saga of particle physics, explaining everything from the basics (how subatomic particles work) to the cutting-edge research that has produced dazzling new models of the universe, among them the radical theories of "superstrings" -- the hypothesis that particles are loops of vibrating "string" -- and "supersymmetry".

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