Elementary Particles and Emergent Phase Space

Nonfiction, Science & Nature, Science, Physics, Nuclear Physics, Quantum Theory
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Author: Piotr Żenczykowski ISBN: 9789814525701
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company Publication: October 7, 2013
Imprint: WSPC Language: English
Author: Piotr Żenczykowski
ISBN: 9789814525701
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company
Publication: October 7, 2013
Imprint: WSPC
Language: English

The Standard Model of elementary particles, although very successful, contains various elements that are put in by hand. Understanding their origin requires going beyond the model and searching for “new physics”. The present book elaborates on one particular proposal concerning such physics. While the original conception is 50 years old, it has not lost its appeal over time. Its basic idea is that space — an arena of events treated in the Standard Model as a classical background — is a concept which emerges from a strictly discrete quantum layer in the limit of large quantum numbers.

This book discusses an extension of this view by replacing space with phase space. It combines the results of the author's research papers and places them in much broader philosophical and phenomenological contexts, thus providing further arguments in favor of the proposed alternative. The book should be of interest to the philosophically-minded readers who are willing to contemplate unorthodox ideas on the very nature of the world.

Contents:

  • Introduction

  • Philosophy and Physics:

    • Reality and Its Description
    • Classical and Quantum Aspects of Reality
    • Time for a Change
  • Elementary Particles:

    • The Standard Model and the Subparticle Paradigm
    • The Problem of Mass
    • Constituent Quarks and Spacetime Points
    • Elementary Particles and Macroscopic Space
  • Phase Space and Quantum:

    • Phase Space and Its Symmetries
    • Quantizing Phase Space
    • Elementary Particles from a Phase-Space Perspective
    • Generalizing the Concept of Mass
    • Overview

Readership: Professionals and researchers in theoretical physics, philosophy of science, particle physics and quantum physics.
Key Features:

  • The main idea is supported by a rare, coherent combination of philosophical, theoretical and phenomenological arguments
  • The book uniquely links the structure of a single Standard Model generation of elementary particles to the symmetries of nonrelativistic phase space
  • The book suggests a novel way of looking at the concept of quark mass, as well as that of mass in general
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The Standard Model of elementary particles, although very successful, contains various elements that are put in by hand. Understanding their origin requires going beyond the model and searching for “new physics”. The present book elaborates on one particular proposal concerning such physics. While the original conception is 50 years old, it has not lost its appeal over time. Its basic idea is that space — an arena of events treated in the Standard Model as a classical background — is a concept which emerges from a strictly discrete quantum layer in the limit of large quantum numbers.

This book discusses an extension of this view by replacing space with phase space. It combines the results of the author's research papers and places them in much broader philosophical and phenomenological contexts, thus providing further arguments in favor of the proposed alternative. The book should be of interest to the philosophically-minded readers who are willing to contemplate unorthodox ideas on the very nature of the world.

Contents:

Readership: Professionals and researchers in theoretical physics, philosophy of science, particle physics and quantum physics.
Key Features:

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