Päs, H.

The perfect wave : with neutrinos at the boundary of space and time / Heinrich Päs. - Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, (c)2014. - 1 online resource (x, 295 pages) : illustrations, map

Includes bibliographies and index.

Dawn patrol in Honolulu -- Eleusis, Pato, magic mushrooms -- Quantum physics : the multiverse of Parmenides -- Black dots on a white background : the particle world -- Beyond the desert : symmetries and unification -- From symmetry breaking to supersymmetry -- Birth of an outlaw : the neutrino -- Nuclear decays a thousand meters underground -- New physics is falling from the skies -- Cosmic connections -- Neutrinos : key to the universe -- Extra dimensions, strings, and branes -- Einstein's heritage : what is time? -- How to build a time machine -- Against Hawking and the timekeepers -- Into the wilderness of the terascale -- Epilogue : Major Tom and the singing Socrates.



9780674726192


Particles (Nuclear physics)--History.
Neutrinos--Mass.
Cosmology.
Space and time.


Electronic Books.

QC793 / .P474 2014