文档介绍：Table of Contents
A PLUME BOOK
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Introduction
Chapter 1 - The First Unifications
Chapter 2 - Einstein’s Relativity and Noether’s Theorem
Chapter 3 - The End of the World As We Know It
Chapter 4 - (Im)probabilities
Chapter 5 - The Bizarre Reality of QED
Chapter 6 - Feynman’s Particles, Schwinger’s Fields
Chapter 7 - e to the Subatomic Zoo
Chapter 8 - The Color of Quarks
Chapter 9 - The Weakest link
Chapter 10 - The Standard Model, At Last
Chapter 11 - The Edge of Physics
Chapter 12 - New Dimensions
Appendix A - Quarks and the Eightfold Way
Appendix B - Asymptotic Freedom
Appendix C - Interactions of the Standard Model
Glossary
References
Further Reading
Acknowledgements
Index
A PLUME BOOK
THE THEORY OF ALMOST EVERYTHING
ROBERT OERTER teaches physics at e Mason
University. He received his . from the University of
Maryland. He has done research in the area of
supergravity, especially as applied to superstring theories,
and in the quantum mechanics of chaotic systems. He lives
in Maryland.
“In an era when enormous attention is being paid to the promising
but highly speculative superstring/M-theory, a great triumph of science
has gone nearly unnoticed, except by physicists. Robert Oerter
provides here an accessible introduction to the Standard Model—a
towering example of human creativity. He outlines how the Standard
Model can serve as the launching pad for humanity to—paraphrasing
Einstein—see better the secrets of ‘the Ancient One.’”
—S. J. Gates Jr., John S. Toll Professor of Physics and
director of the Center for String and Particle Theory,
University of Maryland
“We always hear about black holes, the big bang, and the search for
life in the universe. But rare is the book that celebrates the Standard
Model of Elementary Particles—a triumph of twentieth-century science
that underpins nearly all we know about physical reality.
Oerter’s The Theory of Almost Everything be