LEADER 03128nam 2200661 450 001 9910463924403321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-674-72619-7 024 7 $a10.4159/harvard.9780674726192 035 $a(CKB)2670000000543811 035 $a(EBL)3301403 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001134500 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11756760 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001134500 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11183259 035 $a(PQKB)11436641 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3301403 035 $a(DE-B1597)213457 035 $a(OCoLC)871257294 035 $a(OCoLC)961548420 035 $a(OCoLC)979954097 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780674726192 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3301403 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10841967 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000543811 100 $a20140314h20142014 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe perfect wave $ewith neutrinos at the boundary of space and time /$fHeinrich Pa?s 210 1$aCambridge, Massachusetts ;$aLondon, England :$cHarvard University Press,$d2014. 210 4$d©2014 215 $a1 online resource (312 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-674-72501-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tPreface --$t1 Dawn Patrol in Honolulu --$t2 Eleusis, Plato, Magic Mushrooms --$t3 Quantum Physics: The Multiverse of Parmenides --$t4 Black Dots on a White Background: The Particle World --$t5 Beyond the Desert: Symmetries and Unification --$t6 From Symmetry Breaking to Supersymmetry --$t7 Birth of an Outlaw: The Neutrino --$t8 Nuclear Decays a Thousand Meters Underground --$t9 New Physics Is Falling from the Skies --$t10 Cosmic Connections --$t11 Neutrinos: Key to the Universe --$t12 Extra Dimensions, Strings, and Branes --$t13 Einstein's Heritage: What Is Time? --$t14 How to Build a Time Machine --$t15 Against Hawking and the Timekeepers --$t16 Into the Wilderness of the Terascale --$t17 Epilogue: Major Tom and the Singing Socrates --$tNotes --$tFurther Reading --$tAcknowledgments --$tIndex 330 $aAlmost 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. 606 $aParticles (Nuclear physics)$xHistory 606 $aNeutrinos$xMass 606 $aCosmology 606 $aSpace and time 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aParticles (Nuclear physics)$xHistory. 615 0$aNeutrinos$xMass. 615 0$aCosmology. 615 0$aSpace and time. 676 $a539.7/215 700 $aPa?s$b Heinrich$g(Heinrich)$01036180 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910463924403321 996 $aThe perfect wave$92456361 997 $aUNINA