Mass: The Quest to Understand Matter from Greek Atoms to Quantum Fields

by Jim Baggott

Book Overview

Everything around us is made of 'stuff', from planets, to books, to our own bodies. Whatever it is, we call it matter or material substance. It is solid; it has mass. But what is matter, exactly? We are taught in school that matter is not continuous, but discrete. As a few of the philosophers of ancient Greece once speculated, nearly two and a half thousand years ago, matter comes in 'lumps', and science has relentlessly peeled away successive layers...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019875972X
• ISBN13: 9780198759720
• Release Date: September 2020
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 5.0" x 7.6"