FUNDAMENTAL FORCES OF NATURE<br> The Story of Gauge Fields

FUNDAMENTAL FORCES OF NATURE
The Story of Gauge Fields

CONTENTS


FRONT MATTER	i
What Makes the World Tick? Kerson Huang	1
Electromagnetism Kerson Huang	13
The Vacuum is the Medium Kerson Huang	25
Let There be Light Kerson Huang	39
Heroic Age: The Struggle for Quantum Theory Kerson Huang	47
Quantum Reality Kerson Huang	59
What is Charge? Kerson Huang	69
The Zen of Rotation Kerson Huang	77
Yang–Mills Field: Non-Commuting Charges Kerson Huang	85
Photons Real and Virtual Kerson Huang	95
Creation and Annihilation Kerson Huang	101
The Dynamical Vacuum Kerson Huang	113
Elementary Particles Kerson Huang	127
The Fall of Parity Kerson Huang	139
The Particle Explosion Kerson Huang	147
Quarks Kerson Huang	157
All Interactions are Local Kerson Huang	169
Broken Symmetry Kerson Huang	181
Quark Confinement Kerson Huang	193
Hanging Threads of Silk Kerson Huang	201
The World in a Grain of Sand Kerson Huang	215
In the Space of All Possible Theories Kerson Huang	227
BACK MATTER	237
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