Matter

Matter

The Magnificent Illusion

Tonelli, Guido; Williams, Edward

John Wiley and Sons Ltd

10/2024

220

Dura

9781509564149

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Prologue


1. The mother of everything
A word which has very deep roots ; Morning rituals and due respect for corpses ; Matter in the thoughts of the great thinkers ; An assumption about the stability and persistence of the material universe


2. Atoms and the void
The birth of atomism ; Epicurus and Lucretius ; An incredible discovery made by the secretary to an anti-Pope ; Venus Zephyrus and maggots in cheese ; The birth of modern science and atomism


3. They're just particles
The dark side of the Moon 26; Particle hunters; Particles which bond with other particles ; The irresistible force of Eros ; The realm of the shyest and most self-effacing of the particles 33; Five small phenomena


4. Clouds soft matter and the last shamans
States of matter ; The strange world of soft materials ; The almost eternal life of the great material structures ; The evanescent world of the most ephemeral forms of matter


5. The triumph and decline of a thousand-year-old assumption
Stories of fermions and bosons ; But what really is mass? ; The generation of '64 ; Geneva the 8th of November 2011 ; A strange field that occupies the whole universe ; The strangeness of the Higgs and the many mysteries it hides


6. Shining stars and black stars
What stars are ; The turbulent side of the Sun ; The spectacular end of a tranquil star ; Supernovas and neutron stars 64; Black holes


7. The obscure forms of matter which populate the universe
Mostly gas and a pinch of dust ; Milkomeda and the Black Eye Galaxy ; The dark side of matter ; The light which sees dark matter ; The dark kingdom of shadows ; Delicate and gentle messengers


8. What is supporting the water that Bahamut swims in
The critical density of the universe ; What the vacuum is ; Where matter comes from ; What will happen to matter in the end


9. The magnificent illusion
The great euphoria of mechanistic materialism ; State materialism ; Modern materialism ; But what is matter really ; And what if particles were hiding unspeakable secrets from us


Epilogue
Index
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matter; universe; atom; illusion; mass; elementary particle; vacuum; space-time; Ancient Greece; Democritus; Galileo; Newton; inorganic matter; soft matter; animate matter; terrestrial matter; celestrial matter; in what sense is the vacuum a material state?; Why can space-time also vibrate and oscillate?; Can elementary grains of space and time exist?; What forms does matter assume inside large black holes?; what kind of matter makes up the body?; history of physics; history of scientific discovery; cosmos; latest scientific research in simple language; easy physics; shining stars; black stars; sun