Jim Baggott: Mass: The quest to understand matter from Greek atoms to quantum fields [2017] hardback Condition:New CANDICE CARTY-WILLIAMS

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Jim Baggott: Mass: The quest to understand matter from Greek atoms to quantum fields [2017] hardback Condition:New CANDICE CARTY-WILLIAMSEverything around us is made of 'stuff', from planets, to books, to our own bodies. Whatever it is, we call it matter or material substance. It is solid; it has mass. But what is matter, exactly? We are taught in school that matter is not continuous, but discrete. As a few of the philosophers of ancient Greece once speculated, nearly two and a half thousand years ago, matter comes in 'lumps', and science has relentlessly peeled away successive layers