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The Evolution of the Concept of Matter in Modern Physics

Charis Anastopoulos(Autor*in)

Princeton University Press

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Erschienen am 8. Dezember 2020

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Cover Page
Half-title Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication Page
Contents
List of Illustrations
List of Tables
Acknowledgments
A Note on Terminology
Introduction
1. From Myth to Machine: Images of Matter from Antiquity to Newtonian Mechanics
1.1 First Questions
1.2 The Two Paradigms
1.3 Images of Synthesis
1.4 The Roots of the New Era
1.5 Mathematics and the World
1.6 The Metaphor of the Machine
1.7 Newton's Achievement
2. Progress!: From Newtonian Mechanics to Nineteenth-Century Physics
2.1 Newton's Successors
2.2 The Atoms of Chemistry
2.3 Energy: A First Encounter
2.4 Light
2.5 From Flow to Field
2.6 Electricity and Magnetism
2.7 Faraday and the Field
2.8 Maxwell's Synthesis
2.9 The Triumph of Mechanicism
3. A New Arena is Built: Special Relativity and the Notion of Spacetime
3.1 The Coming of the Twentieth Century
3.2 Reference Systems and Inertial Frames
3.3 Einstein's Solution
3.4 The Union of Space and Time
3.5 Mass Is Energy!
4. The Symmetry Beneath: Symmetry in Physics-Spacetime Symmetries
4.1 Symmetries in Physics Are Hidden
4.2 Noether's Remarkable Theorem
4.3 Space and Time Translations
4.4 The Poincaré Symmetry and the Origin of Particles
4.5 General Relativity
5. The Machine Breaks Down: The Development of Quantum Physics
5.1 The Birth of Quantum Theory
5.2 New Windows to the World
5.3 The Adolescence of Quantum Theory
5.4 Heisenberg's Revolution
5.5 The Riposte: Schrödinger's Wave Mechanics
5.6 Conflict and Reconciliation
5.7 The Mature Quantum Theory
6. So Familiar And Yet So Different: Spin, Quantum Phases, and Quantum Statistics
6.1 The Discovery of Spin
6.2 Quantum Phases
6.3 Spin Is Discrete!
6.4 Identical Things Cannot Be Distinguished
7. Forging the Perfect Tool: The Development of Quantum Field Theory
7.1 Quantum Light
7.2 Dirac's Sea
7.3 Antiparticles
7.4 QED and Feynman Rules
7.5 The Taming of Infinities
7.6 The Basic Principles of Quantum Field Theory
7.7 Three Elegant Symmetries: P, T, and C
8. Pieces of A Puzzle: The Physics of Elementary Particles
8.1 Radioactivity and Forces
8.2 The Hunt for Symmetries
8.3 The Breakdown of Simplicity
8.4 Some Simplicity Restored
9. Reaching the Limits: The Gauge Principle and the Standard Model
9.1 The Birth of the Gauge Principle
9.2 Yang-Mills Theories
9.3 Symmetry Is Broken "Spontaneously"
9.4 The Force That Binds
9.5 The Standard Model
10. Outlook: Unanswered Questions and Open Problems
10.1 The Ancient Dilemma Revisited
10.2 The Singular Status of Quantum Field Theory
10.3 Grand Unified Theories, Supersymmetry,Superstrings, and All That
10.4 Where Do We Go From Here?
Notes
Glossary
Guide for Further Reading
Index

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