Particles, Fields and Forces: A Conceptual Guide to Quantum Field Theory and the Standard Model by Schmitz, Wouter

Particles, Fields and Forces: A Conceptual Guide to Quantum Field Theory and the Standard Model

This book provides unique and comprehensive conceptual explanations of quantum field theory and the standard model of...
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Particles, Fields and Forces: A Conceptual Guide to Quantum Field Theory and the Standard Model by Schmitz, Wouter

Particles, Fields and Forces: A Conceptual Guide to Quantum Field Theory and the Standard Model

CHF 110.57

Particles, Fields and Forces: A Conceptual Guide to Quantum Field Theory and the Standard Model

CHF 110.57
Author: Wouter Schmitz
Format: Paperback
Language: English

This book provides unique and comprehensive conceptual explanations of quantum field theory and the standard model of particle physics. How can fundamental particles exist as waves in the vacuum? How can such waves have particle properties such as inertia? What is behind the notion of virtual particles? Why and how do particles exert forces on one another? Not least: What are forces anyway? These are some of the central questions that have intriguing answers in Quantum Field Theory and the Standard Model of Particle Physics. Unfortunately, these theories are highly mathematical, so that most people--even many scientists--are not able to fully grasp their meaning. This book untangles these theories in a conceptual non-mathematical way, using more than 190 figures and extensive explanations and will provide the nonspecialist with great insights that are not to be found in the popular science literature. This fully revised and expanded second edition adds remarkable insights into the transition from quantum to classical world using the concepts of quantum decoherence, while also explaining "collapse of the wave function", tunnelling and quantum computing.



Author: Wouter Schmitz
Publisher: Springer
Published: 09/22/2022
Pages: 349
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.60lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.20w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9783030987527

About the Author

Wouter J.M. Schmitz, born in 1970, studied physics in Amsterdam. He worked at CERN for an assignment at the Spin Muon Collaboration (SMC) and later as a summer student at a LEP experiment. He graduated at Nikhef Amsterdam in 1994. He has subsequently worked in IT and also holds an MBA degree. Today, Wouter works as a leading digital architect, retaining nonetheless a deep and informed interest in conceptual problems in physics.


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