The Infinity Puzzle: Quantum Field Theory and the Hunt for an Orderly Universe pdf

Frank Close nació en 1945 DC en Peterborough, fue galardonado con el OBE, es profesor de física en la Universidad de Oxford y miembro del Exeter College. Es autor de varios libros superventas como: The Lucifer Legacy, Particle Physics: A Very Short Introduction, The New Cosmic Onion, The Particle Explosion, The End, Extremely Thorny y "The Particle Saga" y "Antimateria". Logró varios logros, entre ellos: - Orden del Imperio Británico con rango de oficial. Beca del Instituto de Física en 1991. Premio Kelvin en 1996. - Vicepresidente de la Asociación Británica para el Avance de la Ciencia 1993-99. - Jefe del equipo británico en la Olimpiada Internacional de Física desde 2003. - Premio Michael Faraday en 2013.

The Infinity Puzzle: Quantum Field Theory and the Hunt for an Orderly Universe pdf por Frank Close

Speculation is rife that by 2012 the elusive Higgs boson will be found at the Large Hadron Collider. If found, the Higgs boson would help explain why everything has mass. But there’s more at stake—what we’re really testing is our capacity to make the universe reasonable. Our best understanding of physics is predicated on something known as quantum field theory. Unfortunately, in its raw form, it doesn’t make sense—its outputs are physically impossible infinite percentages when they should be something simpler, like the number 1. The kind of physics that the Higgs boson represents seeks to “renormalize” field theory, forcing equations to provide answers that match what we see in the real world. The Infinity Puzzle is the story of a wild idea on the road to acceptance. Only Close can tell it.