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