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Hidden Unity in Nature's Laws
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One of the paradoxes of the physical sciences is that as our knowledge has
progressed, more and more diverse physical phenomena can be explained in terms
of fewer underlying laws, or principles. In Hidden Unity, eminent physicist John
Taylor puts many of these findings into historical perspective and documents how
progress is made when unexpected, hidden unities are uncovered between
apparently unrelated physical phenomena. Taylor cites examples from the ancient
Greeks to the present day, such as the unity of celestial and terrestrial
dynamics (17th century), the unity of heat within the rest of dynamics (18th
century), the unity of electricity, magnetism, and light (19th century), the
unity of space and time and the unification of nuclear forces with
electromagnetism (20th century). Without relying on mathematical detail,
Taylor's emphasis is on fundamental physics, like particle physics and
cosmology. Balancing what is understood with the unestablished theories and
still unanswered questions, Taylor takes readers on a fascinating ongoing
journey.

Table Of Contents

Preface
1 Motion on Earth and in the Heavens 1
2 Energy, Heat and Chance 32
3 Electricity and Magnetism 70
4 Light 99
5 Space and Time 137
6 Least Action 175
7 Gravitation and Curved Spacetime 191
8 The Quantum Revolution 214
9 Quantum Theory with Special Relativity 260
10 Order Breaks Symmetry 290
11 Quarks and What Holds Them Together 309
12 Unifying Weak Forces with QED 324
13 Gravitation Plus Quantum Theory - Stars and Black Holes 352
14 Particles, Symmetries and the Universe 379
15 Queries 410
App. A The Inverse-Square Law 431
App. B Vectors and Complex Numbers 437
App. C Brownian Motion 442
App. D: Units 444
Glossary 450
Bibliography 477
Index 481

Product Details

* ISBN: 0521659388
* ISBN-13: 9780521659383
* Format: Paperback, 504pp
* Publisher: Cambridge University Press
* Pub. Date: April 2001
* Edition Number: 1

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