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Fundamental forces of nature : the story of gauge fields
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ISBN: 1281121770 9786611121778 9812770712 9789812770714 9781281121776 9789812706447 9812706445 9789812706454 9812706453 6611121773 Year: 2007 Publisher: Hackensack, NJ: World scientific,

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Gauge fields are the messengers carrying signals between elementary particles, enabling them to interact with each other. Originating at the level of quarks, these basic interactions percolate upwards, through nuclear and atomic physics, through chemical and solid state physics, to make our everyday world go round. This book tells the story of gauge fields, from Maxwell's 1860 theory of electromagnetism to the 1954 theory of Yang and Mills that underlies the Standard Model of elementary particle theory. In the course of the narration, the author introduces people and events in experimental and theoretical physics that contribute to ideas that have shaped our conception of the physical world.

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