Quantum Field Theory: An Arcane Setting for Explaining the World

ISBN-13: 9781643270500 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 77 str.

Roberto Iengo

Spis treści

• Introduction
• Acknowledgements
• Author biography
• 1. Interaction at a distance? Rather, the propagation of a field
• 2. The messengers of the interactions: the 'quanta' of the field
• 3. Matter fields, of an uncommon self-avoiding kind
• 4. Whatever is happening makes an action
• 5. The vacuum: the stage of the fields' play
• 6. The symmetric shape of the action
• 7. Everything fluctuates
• 8. The vacuum is not empty
• 9. What else?
• 10. QFT: what for?
• Appendix: Notes for further insight