The search for superstrings, symmetry, and the theory of everything / John Gribbin.
The search for superstrings, symmetry, and the theory of everything / John Gribbin.
The search for superstrings, symmetry, and the theory of everything / John Gribbin.
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Boston : Little, Brown, c1998.
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T0386310
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English
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x, 212 p. ; 22 cm.
Contents
Introduction: The Material World -- Ch. 1. Quantum Physics for Beginners -- Ch. 2. Particles and Fields -- Ch. 3. In Search of Superforce -- Ch. 4. Desperately Seeking SUSY -- App. I. Group Theory for Beginners -- App. II. Recreating the Birth of the Universe in the Lab.
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Publisher
Boston : Little, Brown, c1998.
Edition
1st North American ed.
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Massachusetts
Date Published
c1998.
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Gribbin offers a clear and concise historical overview of subatomic particles, from the discovery of the electron in 1897 to some of the most exotic and dazzling unification schemes being proposed today. Following a series of major breakthroughs in the 1990s, physicists are now putting together a clearer picture of how subatomic particles work, usi...
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The search for superstrings, symmetry, and the theory of everything / John Gribbin.
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Originally published: In search of SUSY. UK : Penguin, 1998.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [200]-204) and index.
Transferred from N530.142/8.
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c1998.
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T0386310
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0316326143 (pbk.)
9780316329750
0316329754
9780316326148 (pbk.)
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530.142
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991006876519702626
