Atom land : a guided tour through the strange (and impossibly small) world of particle physics

Summary: "This book brings the impossibly small world of particle physics to life, taking readers on a guided journey through the subatomic world. With maps to help "guide" the reader through "Atom Land" along the way, as they learn about "electron ports," "boson continents," "hadron islands," and more"--

Record details

ISBN: 9781615193738
ISBN: 1615193731
ISBN: 9781615193745
ISBN: 161519374X
Physical Description: print
xvi, 284 pages : maps ; 23 cm
Publisher: New York, NY : The Experiment, LLC, 2018.

Content descriptions

General Note:	"Originally published in the UK as A Map of the Invisible by Jon Butterworth in 2017; First published in North America by The Experiment, LLC, in 2018"--Title page verso.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references.
Formatted Contents Note:	Machine generated contents note: Expedition I Sea Legs -- 1. Setting Sail -- 2. Ocean Wave ... -- 3. ... Or Particle? -- 4. Traveling in the Quantum Field -- Expedition II Atom Land -- 5. Atoms -- 6. Going Subatomic: The Electron -- 7. Nuclear Options -- 8. Source of Chemistry -- Expedition III Isle of Leptons, and Roads Onward -- 9. Electromagnetism -- 10. Invariance and Relativity -- 11. Good Ship Dirac -- 12. Spin and Antimatter -- 13. Electron's Overweight Siblings -- Rest Stop -- Gravity: A Distant Diversion -- Weakest Force -- Planes and Merry-Go-Rounds -- Different, yet Somehow the Same -- Ripples in the Space-Time Continuum -- Expedition IV Great Train Journeys -- 14. Protons, Neutrons, and the Nucleus -- 15. Hadrons -- 16. Quarks and the Strong Force -- 17. Life Beyond the Bridge -- 18. Flavors and Generations -- Expedition V Isles by Air -- 19. Weak Force -- 20. Parity, Helicity, and Chirality -- 21. Mixed Messages -- 22. North from South -- Expedition VI Remote Neutrino Sector -- 23. Massless Matter? -- 24. Standard Model Is Dead---Long Live the Standard Model! -- 25. Neutrino Badlands -- Expedition VII Into Bosonia -- 26. Symmetry and Conservation -- 27. Symmetry and Bosons -- 28. Virtual Particles and the Defense Against Infinity -- 29. Mass and Hidden Symmetry -- 30. Electroweak Symmetry Breaking -- 31. Hunting the Higgs -- Expedition VIII Far East -- 32. Why Go? -- 33. Clues and Constraints -- 34. Sea Monsters and Dark Matters -- 35. Supersymmetry -- 36. Into Another Dimension? -- 37. Over the Edge -- 38. Fifth Force -- 39. Into the Cosmos.