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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Strassler, Matt, author.     Subjects     Nuclear physics -- Popular works.     Quantum theory -- Popular works.     Particles (Nuclear physics) -- Popular works.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Strassler, Matt, author.       by title:      Waves in an impossib...         MARC Display

Waves in an impossible sea : how everyday life emerges from the cosmic ocean / Matt Strassler. by Strassler, Matt, author. New York : Basic Books, 2024. Subjects Nuclear physics -- Popular works.   Quantum theory -- Popular works.   Particles (Nuclear physics) -- Popular works. ISBN:  9781541603295 (hardcover) : 154160329X (hardcover) : Description:  viii, 373 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm Edition:  First edition. Contents:  Overture -- Motion. Relativity: the greatest illusion ; Coasting: easier than it appears -- Mass. Armor against the universe ; Enter Einstein: rest mass ; Worlds within worlds: the structure of material ; What mass is (and isn't) ; Energy, mass, and meaning ; That most important of prisons -- Waves. Resonance ; The waves of knowing ; What ears can't hear and eyes can't see -- Fields. Ordinary fields ; Elementary fields: a first, unsettling look ; Elementary fields: a second, humble look -- Quantum. The quantum and the particle ; The mass of a wavicle ; Einstein's haiku -- Higgs. A field like no other ; The Higgs field in action ; Basic unanswered questions ; Deeper conceptual questions ; The really big questions -- Cosmos. Protons and neutrons ; The wizardry of quantum fields ; Coda: the extraordinary in the ordinary. Requests:  0 Summary:  "n Waves in an Impossible Sea, physicist Matt Strassler tells a startling tale of elementary particles, human experience, and empty space. He begins with a simple mystery of motion. When we drive at highway speeds with the windows down, the wind beats against our faces. Yet our planet hurtles through the cosmos at 150 miles per second, and we feel nothing of it. How can our voyage be so tranquil when, as Einstein discovered, matter warps space, and space deflects matter? The answer, Strassler reveals, is that empty space is a sea, albeit a paradoxically strange one. Much like water and air, it ripples in various ways, and we ourselves, made from its ripples, can move through space as effortlessly as waves crossing an ocean. Deftly weaving together daily experience and fundamental physics--the musical universe, the enigmatic quantum, cosmic fields, and the Higgs boson--Strassler shows us how all things, familiar and unfamiliar, emerge from what seems like nothing at all. Accessible and profound, Waves in an Impossible Sea is the ultimate guide to our place in the universe."-- Provided by publisher.   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status Due Date   Hawaii State Library Business, Science & Technology 530 St Checked In   Add Copy to MyList Makawao Public Library Adult Nonfiction 530 St Checked In   Add Copy to MyList McCully-Moiliili Public Library Adult Nonfiction 530 St Checked In   Add Copy to MyList Pearl City Public Library Adult Nonfiction 530 St Checked out 06/14/2024 Add Copy to MyList

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