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080318s2008 nyuaf 001 0 eng c |
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2008925224 |
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9780465003211 |
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(OCoLC)ocn191926131 |
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QC171.2 |
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.W536 2008 |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Wilczek, Frank. |
| 245 14 - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
The lightness of being : |
| Remainder of title |
mass, ether, and the unification of forces / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc. |
Frank Wilczek. |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. |
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| Place of publication, distribution, etc. |
New York, NY : |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. |
Basic Books, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. |
c2008. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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xi, 270 p., [4] p. of plates : |
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ill. (some col.) ; |
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25 cm. |
| 500 ## - GENERAL NOTE |
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| General note |
Includes index. |
| 505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE |
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| Formatted contents note |
About the title -- Reader's guide -- pt. I. The origin of mass -- Getting to It -- Newton's zeroth law -- Einstein's second law -- What matters for matter -- The hydra within -- The bits within the its -- Symmetry incarnate --The grid (persistence of ether) -- Computing matter -- The origin of mass -- The music of the grid : a poem in two equations -- Profound simplicity -- pt. II. The feebleness of gravity -- Is gravity feeble? : Yes (in practice) -- Is gravity feeble? : No (in theory) -- The right question -- A beautiful answer -- pt. III. Is beauty truth? -- Unification : the siren's song -- Unification : through a glass, darkly -- Truthification -- Unification [loves] SUSY -- Anticipating a new golden age -- Epilogue: A smooth pebble, a pretty shell -- Appendix A: Particles have mass, the world has energy -- Appendix B: The multilayered, multicolored cosmic superconductor -- Appendix C: From "not wrong" to (maybe) right -- Glossary. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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The 2004 Nobel Prize winner in physics offers this readable and authoritative work for the general public. It explores basic questions about space, mass, energy, and the longed-for possibility of a fully unified theory of nature. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name entry element |
Mass (Physics) |
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Matter. |
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Ether (Space) |
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| Materials specified |
Publisher description |
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<a href="http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1002/2008925224-d.html">http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1002/2008925224-d.html</a> |
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Books |
