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BL
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| Record Number
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702323
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b524512
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| Main Entry
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Schumm, Bruce A.,1958-
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| Title & Author
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Deep down things : : the breathtaking beauty of particle physics /\ Bruce A. Schumm
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| Publication Statement
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Baltimore :: Johns Hopkins University Press,, c2004
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x, 378 p. :: ill. ;; 24 cm
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| ISBN
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080187971X (hardcover : acid-free paper)
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: 9780801879715 (hardcover : acid-free paper)
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| Notes
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Includes index
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| Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [355]-370) and index
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| Contents
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Introduction -- The true movers & shakers: the forces of nature -- The great reawakening: the modern physics revolution -- The marriage of relativity & quantum theory: relativistic quantum field theory -- Patterns in nature: the fundamental building blocks -- Mathematical patterns: lie groups -- The world within: internal symmetries -- Physics by pure thought: gauge theory -- The current paradigm: hidden symmetry, the standard model & the Higgs Boson -- Into the unknown: what lies ahead
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| Abstract
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"In Deep Down Things, experimental particle physicist Bruce A. Schumm provides an elucidation of the Standard Model of particle physics - a theory that stands as one of the crowning achievements of twentieth-century science."--BOOK JACKET
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Gauge fields (Physics)
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Particles (Nuclear physics)
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Quantum field theory
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Symmetry (Physics)
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| LC Classification
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QC793.2.S35 2004
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