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Fundamental Forces of Nature: The Story of Gauge Fields

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Fundamental Forces of Nature: The Story of Gauge Fields - Huang, Kerson
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Gauge fields are the messengers carrying signals between elementary particles, enabling them to interact with each other. Originating at the level of quarks, these basic interactions percolate upwards, through nuclear and atomic physics, through chemical and solid state physics, to make our everyday world go round. This book tells the story of gauge fields, from Maxwell's 1860 theory of electromagnetism to the 1954 theory of Yang and Mills that underlies the Standard Model of elementary particle theory. In the course of the ...

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Fundamental Forces of Nature: The Story of Gauge Fields 2007, World Scientific Publishing Company, Singapore

ISBN-13: 9789812706454

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Fundamental Forces of Nature: The Story of Gauge Fields 2007, World Scientific Publishing Company, Singapore

ISBN-13: 9789812706447

Hardcover