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

Frank Close è nato nel 1945 a Peterborough, è stato insignito dell'OBE ed è professore di fisica all'Università di Oxford e membro dell'Exeter College. È autore di numerosi libri di successo come: The Lucifer Legacy, Particle Physics: A Very Short Introduction, The New Cosmic Onion, The Particle Explosion, The End, Extremely Thorny, e "The Particle Saga" e "Antimatter". Ha ottenuto diversi successi, tra cui: - Ordine dell'Impero Britannico al grado di ufficiale. Borsa di studio dell'Istituto di Fisica nel 1991. Premio Kelvin nel 1996. - Vicepresidente della British Association for the Advancement of Science 1993-99. - Capo del team britannico nelle Olimpiadi Internazionali di Fisica dal 2003. - Premio Michael Faraday nel 2013.

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