Waves in an impossible sea : how everyday life emerges from the cosmic ocean /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Strassler, Matt (Author)
Corporate Author:	EBSCOhost
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	New York, NY : Basic Books, Hachette Book Group, 2024.
Edition:	First edition.
Subjects:	Nuclear physics > Popular works. Quantum theory > Popular works. Particles (Nuclear physics) > Popular works. Physique nucléaire > Ouvrages de vulgarisation. Théorie quantique > Ouvrages de vulgarisation. Particules (Physique nucléaire) > Ouvrages de vulgarisation. SCIENCE / Physics / General. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

Overture
Motion. Relativity: the greatest illusion ; Coasting: easier than it appears
Mass. Armor against the universe ; Enter Einstein: rest mass ; Worlds within worlds: the structure of material ; What mass is (and isn't) ; Energy, mass, and meaning ; That most important of prisons
Waves. Resonance ; The waves of knowing ; What ears can't hear and eyes can't see
Fields. Ordinary fields ; Elementary fields: a first, unsettling look ; Elementary fields: a second, humble look
Quantum. The quantum and the particle ; The mass of a wavicle ; Einstein's haiku
Higgs. A field like no other ; The Higgs field in action ; Basic unanswered questions ; Deeper conceptual questions ; The really big questions
Cosmos. Protons and neutrons ; The wizardry of quantum fields ; Coda: the extraordinary in the ordinary.