Mass
The Quest to Understand Matter from Greek Atoms to Quantum Fields
Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2017.
Format: Book
Edition: First Edition.
Description: xvi, 320 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Everything around us is made of 'stuff', from planets, to books, to our own bodies. Whatever it is, we call it matter or material substance. It is solid; it has mass. But what is matter, exactly? We are taught in school that matter is not continuous, but discrete. As a few of the philosophers of ancient Greece once speculated, nearly two and a half thousand years ago, matter comes in 'lumps', and science has relentlessly peeled away successive layers of matter to reveal its ultimate constituents.
ISBN:
9780198759713
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SCIENCE Physics Bag | Ballentine Indoors | Nonfiction | In |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-324) and index.