Conservation Laws
Preamble
Conservation of Momentum
Conservation of Angular Momentum
Conservation of Electric Charge
The Beginning of Chemistry
Conservation of Energy
The Danger
The Synthesis
Relativity
Noether’s Theorem
Waves And Particles
From Democritus to Dalton
Newton, Huygens
Young, Fresnel
Maxwell
Hertz, Lenard
Planck
Einstein
Bose, Bohr
de Broglie
Jekyll, Hyde
Insider’s Story of The Atomland
Dalton
Mendeleev
Thomson
Rutherford
Mosley
Bohr
Heisenberg
Schrödinger
Pauli
In Short
Smaller than the Atom
Preamble
Dirac
Pauli
Yukawa
Rabi’s question
Lawrence’s legacy
Gell-Mann, Zweig
Feynman
Richter, Ting, Lederman
An Elementary Consideration
Destination Unification
Behind the Apparent
Beyond the Apparent
Give and Take
The Symmetries
Old Wine in a New Bottle
The "Colors"
The Pictorial Description
Subtle is the Lord
The Unifying Hand
Untied Knots, Unexplored Horizons
Suggested Reading
Index
Biography
Palash B Pal is a senior professor at the Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics in Kolkata. He was awarded a PhD from the Carnegie-Mellon University. Dr. Pal's research interests are in the area of particle physics. He has written various academic books, as well as popular-level books, and received the Rabindra Smriti Puroskar (Rabindranath Tagore memorial prize) from the Government of West Bengal. He has authored nearly 100 academic papers.
"… a good introduction to particle physics for laypeople. … Pal excels at presenting difficult concepts of symmetry and quantum physics in an easy-to-understand manner without resorting to difficult mathematical equations. He succeeds in explaining esoteric mathematical concepts by using examples from everyday life that can be understood by anyone. The writing is lucid and entertaining, and the text’s larger than usual font is easy on the eyes. … What stands out is the insight that the book provides into how theories in science are developed and how much painstaking effort and hard work go into solving the mysteries of the universe and coming up with the answers that people sometimes take for granted. Summing Up: Recommended."
—CHOICE, December 2015
