Particles Fields and Forces A Conceptual Guide to Quantum Field Theory and the Standard Model 2nd Edition Wouter Schmitz

Particles Fields and Forces A Conceptual Guide to Quantum Field Theory and the Standard Model 2nd Edition Wouter Schmitz – Ebook Instant Download/Delivery ISBN(s): 9783030987527, 3030987523, 9783030987534, 3030987531

Product details:

• ISBN 10:  3030987531
• ISBN 13: 9783030987534
• Author:  Wouter Schmitz

This book provides unique and comprehensive conceptual explanations of quantum field theory and the standard model of particle physics. How can fundamental particles exist as waves in the vacuum? How can such waves have particle properties such as inertia? What is behind the notion of virtual particles? Why and how do particles exert forces on one another? Not least: What are forces anyway? These are some of the central questions that have intriguing answers in Quantum Field Theory and the Standard Model of Particle Physics. Unfortunately, these theories are highly mathematical, so that most people—even many scientists—are not able to fully grasp their meaning. This book untangles these theories in a conceptual non-mathematical way, using more than 190 figures and extensive explanations and will provide the nonspecialist with great insights that are not to be found in the popular science literature. This fully revised and expanded second edition adds remarkable insights into the transition from quantum to classical world using the concepts of quantum decoherence, while also explaining “collapse of the wave function”, tunnelling and quantum computing.

Table contents:

1. Introduction
2. Particles or Waves?
3. Fields and Waves Making Up Reality
4. What Is a Particle If It Is a Wave?
5. The Potential of a Field’s Elasticity
6. A Wave of Relativity
7. Quantization of Fields
8. Energy in Waves and Fields
9. Symmetry and the Origin of Force
10. Propagators and Virtual Particles
11. Renormalisation of Fearful Infinities
12. Is the Cat Dead or Alive? How Quantum Decoherence ‘Digitized’ the Universe
13. Spin Makes Up Bosons and Fermions
14. Conservation of Charge and Particle Number
15. Particle Zoo
16. Electroweak Force in the Early Universe
17. Symmetry Breaking and the World Was Never the Same Again
18. The Strong Force: Quantum Chromodynamics
19. Gravity as a Field
20. Further Reading

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