Particle Physics in the Cosmos (Readings from Scientific American Magazine)

Bys: W. Peter Trower and Carrigan, Richard A., Jr.

A collection of essays by the world's foremost scientists discusses dark matter, the beginnings of the universe, elementary particles and their relation to the cosmos, and matter versus antimatter. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0716719193
• ISBN13: 9780716719199
• Release Date: February 1989
• Publisher: W. H. Freeman
• Length: 228 Pages
• Weight: 1.11 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.5" x 0.8" x 7.5"

Customer Reviews

An excellent introduction to field theory.

We have been taught by Bill Gates and Gordon Moore that newer=better. It's not always true. This book includes several atricles from Scientific American in the '80s. One of those articles, "Gauge Theories" by nobel laureate Gerard t'Hooft is worth the price of this book all by itself, especially if you get a used copy. This article explains better than any other I've ever seen how quarks and electrons work. Theoretical Physics has two schools of thought, called "the Standard Model" and "String Theory." While string theory has caught the imagination of the public, in 25 years of research no connection between string theory and experiements in our universe has been made. The standard model is what we have that works. t'Hooft won his nobel prize for showing that electro-weak theory is renormalizable, using his new renormalization technique 'dimensional regularization.' There is no one alive better qualified to explain the standard model, and only a couple equally qualified. His article is, imho, must reading for anyone who wants to understand quarks and leptons at any non-trivial level. The book also includes several other articles by several other authors.