"The Lightness of Being" is a tour de force, revealing a universe where matter is the hum of strange music, mass doesn't weigh, and empty space is a multilayered, multicoloured superconductor. Physicists' understanding of the essential nature of reality changed radically over the past quarter century. And Frank Wilczek has played a lead role in establishing the new paradigms. Transcending the clash and mismatch of older ideas about what matter and space are, Wilczek presents some brilliant and clear syntheses. Extraordinarily readable and authoritative, "The Lightness of Being" is the first book to unwrap these exciting new ideas for the general public. Pointing to new directions where great discoveries in fundamental physics are likely, and providing a visionary context for the experiments in CERN, he envisions a new Golden Age in physics.

Lightness of Being: Big Questions, Real Answers

Science & Math

Frank Wilczek

Mathematics

Penguin??Books

Fundamentals: Ten Keys to Reality

Penguin Books, Ltd.

A Beautiful Question: Finding Nature's Deep Design [Paperback] [Aug 25, 2016] Frank Wilczek

Penguin Group

The Lightness of Being: Big Questions, Real Answers

Viking Adult

Lehkost Bytí, Aneb, Bytí Jako Světlo

Fundamentele Lumii Fizice

Humanitas

FRACTIONAL STATISTICS AND ANYON SUPERCONDUCTIVITY (Directions in Condensed Matter Physics)

The occurrence of fractional statistics has been discovered in more and more quantum field theory models, including some of the most geometrical and canonical ones. In a remarkable case, the fractional quantum statistics of quasiparticles in the fractional quantized Hall effect (FQHE) contributes to the understanding of states found there. Very recent work has indicated that similar possibilities arise for two-dimensional films in certain states of liquid 3He. Perhaps most exciting, although quite speculative at this moment, are recent attempts to apply fractional statistics to spin systems, and specifically to the behaviour of the 2-dimensional copper oxide layers that seem to be critical to the phenomenon of high-temperature superconductivity. It has recently been shown that fractional statistics automatically implies superconductivity of a qualitatively new kind. This collection of reprints with comprehensive commentary will serve as a valuable reference for those interested in the subject but have found it difficult to acquire basic knowledge, or a coherent view of the whole, due to the scattered literature available at present.

Physics

World Scientific Publishing Company

With a contribution from Betsy Devine

FANTASTIC REALITIES: 49 MIND JOURNEYS AND A TRIP TO STOCKHOLM

Biographies & Memoirs

Professionals & Academics

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