This large tome covers the complete history of research into the physics of time. All of the major developments in physics are explained in detail, with arguments and counter-arguments. The facts are laid out clearly and although the author clearly identifies his positions, he allows the reader t...
I thought I understood Particle Physics before this book; turns out I was wrong. This book taught me a LOT. Even my understanding of the 'Standard Model' of Particles is absolutely polished up; now able to distinguish between fermions and bosons, the workings of the LHC in its entirety and its hi...
This was not an easy book to understand and the particle zoo plays a large role in the discussion and often I would lose my way only because the material is sometimes hard to follow, but the book covers everything you always wanted to know about the Higgs Boson and its field, but were afraid to a...
On the other hand you had James Clerk Maxwell’s unification of electricity and magnetism, which came about in the middle of the nineteenth century and had explained an impressive variety of experimental phenomena. The problem was that these two marvelously successful theories didn’t fit together....