附註:Cover -- Contents -- Prologue: A Century of Particle Charges -- 1. The Electron: The Quantum of Electricity -- 2. Mass: E = mc2 and All That -- 3. The Photon: No Charge, No Mass -- 4. The Spin: If Its Round, It Rolls -- 5. Antimatter: A Mirror Image -- 6. The Nucleus: A Whole New Ball Game -- 7. The Strong Force I: Nucleons -- 8. The Weak Force: A Whisper in the Night -- 9. The Strong Force II: Hadrons -- 10. The Quark: The Queen of Fractions -- 11. The Origin of Quarks and Gluons -- Epilogue: More Quarks, More Leptons and More Charges.
摘要:Our journey in search of the origin of matter - and, by extension, the origin of the Universe itself - has taken us deeper and deeper inside atoms. First to come into view was the atomic nucleus, and still further downscale the individual protons and neutrons that constitute the nucleus. At least for three decades, nucleons (protons and neutrons) were considered to be our final destination. Then, peering into them, we detected shadows of yet another layer of matter that lurks inside. Unable so far to crack open a nucleon and bring out one of these shadowy objects for observation and measurem.
