String Theory - Couverture souple

Schiller PhD, Dr. Jon

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1532881673 ISBN 13 : 9781532881671

Editeur : CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2016

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Several times each year I receive Engineering and Science, a magazine published at Caltech where I was awarded the BS in Physics in 1951. I learn all of the new areas of research being done at my alma mater. I am especially interested in Physics. This year I leaned that research is taking place in String Theory. In Physics, string theory is a theoretical framework in which the point-like particles of particle physics are replaced by one-dimensional objects called strings. It describes how these strings propagate through space and interact with each other. On distance scales larger than the string scale, a string looks just like an ordinary particle, with its mass, charge, and other properties determined by the vibrational state of the string. In string theory, one of the many vibrational states of the string corresponds to the graviton, a quantum mechanical particle that carries gravitational force. Thus string theory is a theory of quantum gravity. String theory is a broad and varied subject that attempts to address a number of deep questions of fundamental physics. String theory has been applied to a variety of problems in black hole physics, early universe cosmology, nuclear physics, and condensed matter physics, and it has stimulated a number of major developments in pure mathematics. Because string theory potentially provides a unified description of gravity and particle physics, it is a candidate for a theory of everything, a self-contained mathematical model that describes all fundamental forces and forms of matter. Despite much work on these problems, it is not known to what extent string theory describes the real world or how much freedom the theory allows to choose the details.

Biographie de l'auteur :

Jon Schiller received the BS in Physics from Caltech and the PhD in EE and Math at USC. He worked at Autonetics division of Rockwell from 1956 thru 1974. He has authored more than 20 books ranging in topics from Options Trading to action novels such as Multihulls and documentaries such as Global Change.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Date d'édition: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1532881673
• ISBN 13: 9781532881671
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 140