{"product_id":"9789814338257","title":"Fundamental Forces of Nature: The Story of Gauge Fields","description":"\u003cp\u003eGauge fields are the messengers carrying signals between elementary particles, enabling them to interact with each other. Originating at the level of quarks, these basic interactions percolate upwards, through nuclear and atomic physics, through chemical and solid state physics, to make our everyday world go round. This book tells the story of gauge fields, from Maxwell's 1860 theory of electromagnetism to the 1954 theory of Yang and Mills that underlies the Standard Model of elementary particle theory. In the course of the narration, the author introduces people and events in experimental and theoretical physics that contribute to ideas that have shaped our conception of the physical world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eContents:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWhat Makes the World Tick?\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eElectromagnetism\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Vacuum is the Medium\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLet There Be Light\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHeroic Age: The Struggle for Quantum Theory\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eQuantum Reality\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWhat is Charge?\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Zen of Rotation\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eYang-Mills Field: Non-Commuting Charges\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePhotons Real and Virtual\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCreation and Annihilation\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Dynamical Vacuum\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eElementary Particles\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Fall of Parity\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Particle Explosion\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eQuarks\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAll Interactions are Local\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBroken Symmetry\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eQuark Confinement\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHanging Threads of Silk\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe World in a Grain of Sand\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIn the Space of All Possible Theories\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReadership:\u003c\/b\u003e Students of physics and interested general readers.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"World Scientific Publishing Company, Incorporated","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47185281941744,"sku":"9789814338257","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9789814338257_p0.jpg?v=1763691836","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9789814338257","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}