03094nam 2200649 450 991078770970332120230803195400.00-674-72619-710.4159/harvard.9780674726192(CKB)2670000000543811(EBL)3301403(SSID)ssj0001134500(PQKBManifestationID)11756760(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001134500(PQKBWorkID)11183259(PQKB)11436641(MiAaPQ)EBC3301403(DE-B1597)213457(OCoLC)871257294(OCoLC)961548420(OCoLC)979954097(DE-B1597)9780674726192(Au-PeEL)EBL3301403(CaPaEBR)ebr10841967(EXLCZ)99267000000054381120140314h20142014 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtccrThe perfect wave with neutrinos at the boundary of space and time /Heinrich PäsCambridge, Massachusetts ;London, England :Harvard University Press,2014.©20141 online resource (312 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-674-72501-8 Includes bibliographical references and index.Front matter --Contents --Preface --1 Dawn Patrol in Honolulu --2 Eleusis, Plato, Magic Mushrooms --3 Quantum Physics: The Multiverse of Parmenides --4 Black Dots on a White Background: The Particle World --5 Beyond the Desert: Symmetries and Unification --6 From Symmetry Breaking to Supersymmetry --7 Birth of an Outlaw: The Neutrino --8 Nuclear Decays a Thousand Meters Underground --9 New Physics Is Falling from the Skies --10 Cosmic Connections --11 Neutrinos: Key to the Universe --12 Extra Dimensions, Strings, and Branes --13 Einstein's Heritage: What Is Time? --14 How to Build a Time Machine --15 Against Hawking and the Timekeepers --16 Into the Wilderness of the Terascale --17 Epilogue: Major Tom and the Singing Socrates --Notes --Further Reading --Acknowledgments --IndexAlmost weightless and able to pass through the densest materials with ease, neutrinos may offer answers to questions ranging from relativity and quantum mechanics to more radical theories about dark energy and supersymmetry. Heinrich Päs serves as our fluent guide to a particle world that tests the boundaries of space, time, and human knowledge.Particles (Nuclear physics)HistoryNeutrinosMassCosmologySpace and timeParticles (Nuclear physics)History.NeutrinosMass.Cosmology.Space and time.539.7/215Päs Heinrich(Heinrich)1083524MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910787709703321The perfect wave3695864UNINA