Title: The Theory of Almost Everything : The Standard Model, the Unsung Triumph of Modern Physics
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication Date: 2005
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0132366789
ISBN 13: 9780132366786
Binding: Hardcover
Edition: 1st.
Condition: Good
Weight: 1.182 pounds

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Introduces the standard model of particle physics which describes all the known fundamental interactions of elementary particles, and is regarded as the greatest intellectual achievement of modern physics despite its exclusion of gravity, which prevents the realization of Einstein's dream of a single unified theory of all known physical phenomena.

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Robert Oerter teaches physics at George Mason University. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Maryland. He has done research in the areas of supergravity, especially as applied to superstring theories, and in the quantum mechanics of chaotic systems. He lives in Maryland.

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