100 Years of Fundamental Theoretical Physics in the Palm of Your Hand

100 Years of Fundamental Theoretical Physics in the Palm of Your Hand

Integrated Technical Treatment

Manoukian, E. B.

Springer Nature Switzerland AG

10/2021

553

Mole

Inglês

9783030510831

15 a 20 dias

1402

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Preface.- Introduction.- Emergence of a Fundamental Constant in Physics.- Sorting out Selective Measurements.- QM Re-Invents Complex Numbers, Matrices, Operators and Inner-Product Spaces.- Symmetries and Emergence of h in the Formalism Itself.- Commutation Relations: Statements of Measurability.- Measurements and Interference.- Quantum Dynamics, Time Evolution and Quantum Scattering.- Stability of the H-Atom in Configuration Space.- Do Atomic Electrons Fall to the Center of Atoms?.- How QM Prevents Matter From Collapsing Around Us and Forces it to Occupy Such a Large Volume.- Bell's Tests, Entanglement and Refinements.- Schroedinger's Cat: A Theoretical Description.- Lorentz Frames and Minkowski Spacetime.- The Celebrated Lorentz Group: The Underlying Transformations Derived.- Physics in Minkowski Spcetime: Applications.- First Unified Field Theory: Maxwell's Equations, Lorentz Covariance and the Photon Concept.- Spinors and the Group SL(2,C).- QM Meets Relativity and the Birth of QFT: Fields & Particles.- The Five Types of Fields You Meet in High-Energy Physics.- Another Look at Symmetry and Quantum Generators of the Lorentz Group.- Gauge Fields.- Quarks, Leptons, Gluons and Massive Vector Fields.- The Three Main Lagrangians You Meet in Quantum Field Theory.- Quantum Dynamics: The Differential and Integral Formalisms of Two Giants in Physics.- Index.
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Frame dragging in General Relativity;Gravitational lensing;13.8 billion years old Universe;Gauge theories;Inflation and Grand Unification;Power spectrum in cosmology;Black holes, white holes and wormholes;Quantum Physics foundations;Schroedinger's Cat;Supersymmetry and strings;Why the Higgs boson?;Fundamental theoretical physics;Quantum Physics;Classical and Quantum Gravity;Quantum Field Theory;Elementary Particles