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Particle Physics Books
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Introduction to Elementary Particles (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.26 — 665 ratings — published 1987
The Particle at the End of the Universe: How the Hunt for the Higgs Boson Leads Us to the Edge of a New World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as particle-physics)
avg rating 4.06 — 4,533 ratings — published 2012
Quarks and Leptons: An Introductory Course in Modern Particle Physics (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as particle-physics)
avg rating 3.95 — 62 ratings — published 1984
Deep Down Things: The Breathtaking Beauty of Particle Physics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as particle-physics)
avg rating 4.33 — 243 ratings — published 2004
Neutrino (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as particle-physics)
avg rating 4.08 — 726 ratings — published 2010
Introduction to Elementary Particle Physics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as particle-physics)
avg rating 3.79 — 14 ratings — published 2008
The Theory of Almost Everything: The Standard Model, the Unsung Triumph of Modern Physics (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as particle-physics)
avg rating 4.08 — 813 ratings — published 2005
The God Particle: If the Universe Is the Answer, What Is the Question? (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as particle-physics)
avg rating 4.16 — 4,196 ratings — published 1993
Atom Land: A Guided Tour Through the Strange and Impossibly Small World of Particle Physics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as particle-physics)
avg rating 3.62 — 651 ratings — published 2018
The Rise of the Standard Model: Particle Physics in the 1960s and 1970s (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as particle-physics)
avg rating 3.17 — 6 ratings — published 1997
Lie Algebras in Particle Physics: From Isospin to Unified Theories (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as particle-physics)
avg rating 4.00 — 52 ratings — published 1982
Smashing Physics (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as particle-physics)
avg rating 3.94 — 617 ratings — published 2014
Modern Particle Physics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as particle-physics)
avg rating 4.32 — 82 ratings — published 2013
QUARKS AND GLUONS: A CENTURY OF PARTICLE CHARGES (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as particle-physics)
avg rating 3.58 — 12 ratings — published 1999
Massive: The Missing Particle That Sparked the Greatest Hunt in Science (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as particle-physics)
avg rating 3.90 — 772 ratings — published 2010
An Introduction to Particle Physics and the Standard Model (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as particle-physics)
avg rating 4.07 — 15 ratings — published 2009
Particle Physics: A Very Short Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as particle-physics)
avg rating 3.95 — 1,277 ratings — published 2004
The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as particle-physics)
avg rating 4.09 — 103,858 ratings — published 1999
An Introduction to the Standard Model of Particle Physics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as particle-physics)
avg rating 4.40 — 25 ratings — published 1998
An Introduction To Quantum Field Theory (Frontiers in Physics)
by (shelved 3 times as particle-physics)
avg rating 4.19 — 471 ratings — published 1994
This Way to the Universe: A Theoretical Physicist's Journey to the Edge of Reality (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as particle-physics)
avg rating 3.54 — 277 ratings — published 2022
Who Cares about Particle Physics?: Making Sense of the Higgs Boson, the Large Hadron Collider and CERN (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as particle-physics)
avg rating 3.84 — 76 ratings — published 2015
The Infinity Puzzle: Quantum Field Theory and the Hunt for an Orderly Universe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as particle-physics)
avg rating 4.01 — 682 ratings — published 2011
Constructing Quarks: A Sociological History of Particle Physics (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as particle-physics)
avg rating 3.81 — 26 ratings — published 1984
Symmetry and the Beautiful Universe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as particle-physics)
avg rating 4.03 — 218 ratings — published 2004
Unification of Fundamentals Physics: The First 1988 Dirac Memorial Lecture (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as particle-physics)
avg rating 4.09 — 23 ratings — published 1990
The Particle Explosion (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as particle-physics)
avg rating 4.38 — 13 ratings — published 1987
The Particle Garden: Our Universe As Understood By Particle Physicists (Helix Books)
by (shelved 2 times as particle-physics)
avg rating 3.74 — 88 ratings — published 1995
Collider: The Search for the World's Smallest Particles (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as particle-physics)
avg rating 3.82 — 446 ratings — published 2009
Modern Elementary Particle Physics: Explaining and Extending the Standard Model (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as particle-physics)
avg rating 4.40 — 5 ratings — published
Lost in Math: How Beauty Leads Physics Astray (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as particle-physics)
avg rating 4.05 — 3,526 ratings — published 2018
Introduction to High Energy Physics (3rd Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as particle-physics)
avg rating 3.45 — 29 ratings — published 1972
From Photons To Higgs: A Story Of Light (2Nd Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as particle-physics)
avg rating 3.00 — 1 rating — published 2014
An Introductory Course of Particle Physics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as particle-physics)
avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published 2014
Quantum Field Theory and the Standard Model (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as particle-physics)
avg rating 4.48 — 103 ratings — published 2013
Elementary Particles and the Laws of Physics: The 1986 Dirac Memorial Lectures (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as particle-physics)
avg rating 4.12 — 230 ratings — published
Revolutions in Twentieth-Century Physics (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as particle-physics)
avg rating 4.20 — 88 ratings — published 2012
Introduction to Particle and Astroparticle Physics: Questions to the Universe (Undergraduate Lecture Notes in Physics Book 7)
by (shelved 2 times as particle-physics)
avg rating 4.00 — 4 ratings — published
Particle Physics (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as particle-physics)
avg rating 3.36 — 53 ratings — published 1992
Introducing Particle Physics: A Graphic Guide (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as particle-physics)
avg rating 3.84 — 416 ratings — published 2014
Particle Physics for Non-Physicists: A Tour of the Microcosmos (Audio Cassette)
by (shelved 2 times as particle-physics)
avg rating 4.25 — 530 ratings — published 2003
UNDERSTANDING THE UNIVERSE: FROM QUARKS TO THE COSMOS (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as particle-physics)
avg rating 4.36 — 69 ratings — published 2004
Antimatter (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as particle-physics)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,211 ratings — published 2009
Elementary Particle Physics in a Nutshell (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as particle-physics)
avg rating 3.78 — 9 ratings — published 2011
La Nouvelle Physique: Comprendre les lois ultimes du cosmos (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as particle-physics)
avg rating 5.00 — 2 ratings — published
Human Universe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as particle-physics)
avg rating 4.28 — 5,462 ratings — published 2014
The End of Everything (Astrophysically Speaking)
by (shelved 1 time as particle-physics)
avg rating 4.25 — 13,680 ratings — published 2020
Philosophical Problems of Elementary-Particle Physics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as particle-physics)
avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published
Brief Answers to the Big Questions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as particle-physics)
avg rating 4.25 — 90,853 ratings — published 2018
Taking the Quantum Leap: The New Physics for Nonscientists – From the Greeks to Einstein and the Nature of Reality (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as particle-physics)
avg rating 4.04 — 548 ratings — published 1981
“Σημειώσεις
Εχοντας θέσει ως αίτημα ότι ο χώρος ήταν γεμάτος απο μια, απείρης πυκόντητας, θάλασσα αρν. σωματιδίων, ο Dirac προχώρησε, ρωτώντας αν εμείς μπορούσαμε να αλληλεπιδράσουμε με αυτήν την αρνητκη ενεργειακή θάλασσα. Τι θα συνέβαινε, ας πούμε, αν φορτίζαμε ένα ηλεκτρόνιο με πρόσθετη ενέργεια, ώσπου να βγεί από τη θάλασσα της αρν. ενέργειας? Δυο πράγματα θα συνέβαιναν: Πρώτον,θα δημιουργούσαμε έναηλεκτρόνιο φαινομενικά απ'το τίποτα. Δεύτερον, θα αφήναμε πίσω μας,μια 'τρύπα' στη θάλασσα. Η τρύπα θα ενεργούσε σα να ήταν σωματίδιο η ίδια, ένα σωματίδιο εντελλώς όμοιο με ηλεκτρόνιο, εκτός απο ένα πράμα> θα είχε αντίθετο φορτιο.Αλλά αν μια τρύπα συναντούσε, ένα e- το ηλεκτρόνιο θα έπεφτε πίσω στη θάλλασα του Ντίρακ, εκμηδενίζοντας τρύπα και e- σε μια φωτοβόλα έκρηξη ενέργειας... Η αντιύλη, οι οπές στη θάλασσα, ήταν το σημαντικότερο χαρακτηριστικό στη θεωρία του. Τα υπόλοιπα ήταν μονάχα ένα μαθηματικό κατασκεύασμα.
Εβδομήντα χρόνια αργότερα θυμήθηκα την ιστορία που έλεγε ο καθηγητής μου στα υπερπερασμένα μαθηματικά, και την παρέβαλα με τη θεωρία του Dirac. Όπως όταν βάζεις ένα πρόσθετο πελάτη στο ξενοδοχείο με τα άπειρα κατειλημμένα δωμάτια, έτσι υπολόγισα τελικά, πως θα μπορούσα να αντλήσω ενέργεια από τη θάλασσα του Dirac. Ή για να το πω αλλοιώς έμαθα να κάνω κύματα.
Και τα κύματα της θάλασσας του Ντίρακ, ταξίδευαν αντίθετα στο χρόνο”
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Εχοντας θέσει ως αίτημα ότι ο χώρος ήταν γεμάτος απο μια, απείρης πυκόντητας, θάλασσα αρν. σωματιδίων, ο Dirac προχώρησε, ρωτώντας αν εμείς μπορούσαμε να αλληλεπιδράσουμε με αυτήν την αρνητκη ενεργειακή θάλασσα. Τι θα συνέβαινε, ας πούμε, αν φορτίζαμε ένα ηλεκτρόνιο με πρόσθετη ενέργεια, ώσπου να βγεί από τη θάλασσα της αρν. ενέργειας? Δυο πράγματα θα συνέβαιναν: Πρώτον,θα δημιουργούσαμε έναηλεκτρόνιο φαινομενικά απ'το τίποτα. Δεύτερον, θα αφήναμε πίσω μας,μια 'τρύπα' στη θάλασσα. Η τρύπα θα ενεργούσε σα να ήταν σωματίδιο η ίδια, ένα σωματίδιο εντελλώς όμοιο με ηλεκτρόνιο, εκτός απο ένα πράμα> θα είχε αντίθετο φορτιο.Αλλά αν μια τρύπα συναντούσε, ένα e- το ηλεκτρόνιο θα έπεφτε πίσω στη θάλλασα του Ντίρακ, εκμηδενίζοντας τρύπα και e- σε μια φωτοβόλα έκρηξη ενέργειας... Η αντιύλη, οι οπές στη θάλασσα, ήταν το σημαντικότερο χαρακτηριστικό στη θεωρία του. Τα υπόλοιπα ήταν μονάχα ένα μαθηματικό κατασκεύασμα.
Εβδομήντα χρόνια αργότερα θυμήθηκα την ιστορία που έλεγε ο καθηγητής μου στα υπερπερασμένα μαθηματικά, και την παρέβαλα με τη θεωρία του Dirac. Όπως όταν βάζεις ένα πρόσθετο πελάτη στο ξενοδοχείο με τα άπειρα κατειλημμένα δωμάτια, έτσι υπολόγισα τελικά, πως θα μπορούσα να αντλήσω ενέργεια από τη θάλασσα του Dirac. Ή για να το πω αλλοιώς έμαθα να κάνω κύματα.
Και τα κύματα της θάλασσας του Ντίρακ, ταξίδευαν αντίθετα στο χρόνο”
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“Tapestries are made by many artisans working together. The contributions of separate workers cannot be discerned in the completed work, and the loose and false threads have been covered over. So it is in our picture of particle physics.”
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