{"product_id":"in-search-of-the-ultimate-building-blocks-paperback-9780521578837","title":"In Search of the Ultimate Building Blocks (Paperback) 9780521578837","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eIn Search of the Ultimate Building Blocks\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eFirst-hand 'popular physics' book by very famous theoretical physicist.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eGerard 't Hooft (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521578837, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback, published 28 November 1996\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e208 pages, 22 b\/w illus.  7 tables\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.2 cm, 0.31 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e'… a wonderful account of the development of the Standard Model … I recommend it most enthusiastically.' Lewis Ryder, Astronomy Now\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThis is a first-hand account of one of the most creative and exciting periods of discovery in the history of physics. From 1960 until 1990 theoreticians and experimentalists worked together to probe deeper and deeper into the basic structure of reality, moving closer and closer to an understanding of the ultimate building blocks from which everything in the Universe is made. Gerard 't Hooft was closely involved in many of the advances in the development of the subject. In this book he gives a personal account of the process by which physicists came to understand the structure of matter, and to speculate on possible directions in which the subject may evolve in the future. This fascinating personal account of the last thirty  years in one of the most dramatic areas in twentieth century physics will be of interest to professional physicists and physics students, as well as the educated general reader with an interest in one of the most exciting scientific detective stories ever.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eAn apology\u003cbr\u003e 1. The beginning of the journey to the small: cutting paper\u003cbr\u003e 2. To molecules and atoms\u003cbr\u003e 3. The magic mystery of the quanta\u003cbr\u003e 4. Dazzling velocities\u003cbr\u003e 5. The elementary particle zoo before 1970\u003cbr\u003e 6. Life and death\u003cbr\u003e 7. The crazy kaons\u003cbr\u003e 8. The invisible quarks\u003cbr\u003e 9. Fields or bootstraps?\u003cbr\u003e 10. The Yang-Mills bonanza\u003cbr\u003e 11. Superconducting empty space: the Higgs-Kibble machine\u003cbr\u003e 12. Models\u003cbr\u003e 13. Colouring in the strong forces\u003cbr\u003e 14. The magnetic monopole\u003cbr\u003e 15. Gypsy\u003cbr\u003e 16. The brilliance of the standard model\u003cbr\u003e 17. Anomalies\u003cbr\u003e 18. Deceptive perfection\u003cbr\u003e 19. Weighing neutrinos\u003cbr\u003e 20. The great desert\u003cbr\u003e 21. Technicolor\u003cbr\u003e 22. Grand unification\u003cbr\u003e 23. Supergravity\u003cbr\u003e 24. Eleven dimensional space-time\u003cbr\u003e 25. Attaching the super string\u003cbr\u003e 26. Into the black hole\u003cbr\u003e 27. Theories that do not yet exist … \u003cbr\u003e 28. Dominance of the rule of the smallest.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Physics [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Physics\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Physics%20%5BPH%5D%22\"\u003ePH\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46002729353496,"sku":"9780521578837","price":30.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9780521578837i_0c5c7374-5591-4b3f-96a0-aa618d2ab9aa.jpg?v=1691370005","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/in-search-of-the-ultimate-building-blocks-paperback-9780521578837","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}