Gravity, Strings and Particles: A Journey Into the Unknown

by Maurizio Gasperini

Preface.- Prologue: inside the energy walls of our cradle.- Gravity at small distances.- New fundamental forces of Nature?.- The graviphoton and the dilaton.- Chamaleons and fat gravitons.- New dimensions of space?.- The compact scenario.- The Kaluza-Klein towers and the radion.- A spontaneous compactification.- The brane-world scenario.- The geometric confinement of gravity.- Gravity at large distances.- Extra dimensions strike back.- A new form...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3319005987
• ISBN13: 9783319005980
• Release Date: May 2014
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 125 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.1" x 9.2"