History Of Particle Theory: Between Darwin And Shakespeare. Paul H Frampton

History Of Particle Theory: Between Darwin And Shakespeare - Paul H Frampton


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      Names: Frampton, Paul H., author. | Kim, Jihn E., author.

      Title: History of particle theory : between Darwin and Shakespeare /

      Paul H. Frampton, Jihn E. Kim.

      Description: Hackensack : World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., 2020. | Includes index.

      Identifiers: LCCN 2020029270 | ISBN 9789811224652 (hardcover) |

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      Subjects: LCSH: Particles (Nuclear physics)--History.

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       Contents

       Preface

       Acknowledgements

       Prologue

       Chapter 1: Ancient Greeks

       Chapter 2: God’s Plan

       Chapter 3: Renaissance

       Chapter 4: Newton’s Gravity

       Chapter 5: Darwinian Evolution

       Chapter 6: Particle Theory

       Chapter 7: Order from Chaos

       Chapter 8: Electroweak Unification

       Chapter 9: Open Questions

       Chapter 10: Shakespeare

       Index

       Preface

      This is a popular book about the history of particle theory, the study of the smallest particles of matter.

      We must explain the peculiar choice of subtitle, Between Darwin and Shakespeare, which might at first appear to have no connection to physics. In part, we wanted a catchy subtitle that has never been used before.

      The first of our two subtitular heroes Charles Darwin (1809–1882) achieved immortality by his publication of The Origin of Species in 1859. It transformed the subject of theoretical biology by introducing and making convincing arguments for natural selection and evolution. In our popular book, we wish to describe the evolution of the physics of particle theory up to the 21st century, quite analogous to Darwin’s discussions of evolution in biology, because there is a similar natural selection between theories based on those which agree with experiment; it is likewise a survival of the fittest.


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