TY  - BOOK
AU  - Baggott,J.E.
TI  - Mass: the quest to understand matter from Greek atoms to quantum fields 
SN  - 9780198759713
PY  - 2017///
CY  - Oxford, United Kingdom
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Mass (Physics)
KW  - Matter
KW  - Properties
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-324) and index; Part I. Atom and void -- The quiet citadel -- Things-in-themselves -- An impression of force -- The sceptical chymists -- Part II. Mass and energy -- A very interesting conclusion -- Incommensurable -- the fabric -- In the heart of darkness -- Part III. Wave and particle -- An act of desperation -- The wave equation -- The only mystery -- Mass bare and dressed -- Part IV. Field and force -- The symmetries of nature -- The Goddamn particle -- The standard model -- Mass without mass
N2  - Everything around us is made of 'stuff', from planets, to books, to our own bodies. Whatever it is, we call it matter or material substance. It is solid; it has mass. But what is matter, exactly? We are taught in school that matter is not continuous, but discrete. As a few of the philosophers of ancient Greece once speculated, nearly two and a half thousand years ago, matter comes in 'lumps', and science has relentlessly peeled away successive layers of matter to reveal its ultimate constituents
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