Includes bibliographical references (p. [355]-370) and index
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Introduction -- The true movers & shakers: the forces of nature -- The great reawakening: the modern physics revolution -- The marriage of relativity & quantum theory: relativistic quantum field theory -- Patterns in nature: the fundamental building blocks -- Mathematical patterns: lie groups -- The world within: internal symmetries -- Physics by pure thought: gauge theory -- The current paradigm: hidden symmetry, the standard model & the Higgs Boson -- Into the unknown: what lies ahead
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"In Deep Down Things, experimental particle physicist Bruce A. Schumm provides an elucidation of the Standard Model of particle physics - a theory that stands as one of the crowning achievements of twentieth-century science."--BOOK JACKET