Name: Quanta and Fields: The Biggest Ideas in the Universe
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Author: Carroll, Sean
ISBN: 9780593186602

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Quanta and Fields: The Biggest Ideas in the Universe

Type

Physical Book

Author

Sean Carroll

Publisher

Dutton

Year

2024

Language

English

Pages

304

Format

Hardcover

Dimensions

21.3 x 14.0 x 3.3 cm

Weight

0.41 kg.

ISBN13

9780593186602

Synopsis "Quanta and Fields: The Biggest Ideas in the Universe"

Quanta and Fields, the second book of Sean Carroll's already internationally acclaimed series The Biggest Ideas in the Universe, is an adventure into the bare stuff of reality. Sean Carroll is creating a profoundly new approach to sharing physics with a broad audience, one that goes beyond analogies to show how physicists really think. He cuts to the bare mathematical essence of our most profound theories, explaining every step in a uniquely accessible way. Quantum field theory is how modern physics describes nature at its most profound level. Starting with the basics of quantum mechanics itself, Sean Carroll explains measurement and entanglement before explaining how the world is really made of fields. You will finally understand why matter is solid, why there is antimatter, where the sizes of atoms come from, and why the predictions of quantum field theory are so spectacularly successful. Fundamental ideas like spin, symmetry, Feynman diagrams, and the Higgs mechanism are explained for real, not just through amusing stories. Beyond Newton, beyond Einstein, and all the intuitive notions that have guided homo sapiens for millennia, this book is a journey to a once unimaginable truth about what our universe is.