Particle or Wave: The Evolution of the Concept of Matter in Modern Physics (History of Science Physics) Review

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Particle or Wave: The Evolution of the Concept of Matter in Modern Physics (History of Science Physics) ReviewI've read numerous popular physics books as an interested non-scientist in those 'deep' questions about the nature of reality and I'm really impressed with how deeply the author has gone into the mysteries of the standard model of quantum mechanics. As in most books of this type the majority of the book is occupied with a recapitulation of scientific development beginning with the greeks, continuing with newton, the enlightenment scientists and mathematicians, all of which is necessary presumably for those who are reading this without any science background in secondary education.
However, in the later chapters he really gets into the big questions surrounding the standard model, such as the meanings of spin, phase, symmetry, and what these might mean in the description of the point-like mathematical objects that are posited to constitute the fundamental particles. His approach is to emphasize the field concept as the more basic concept compared to say particles traveling through absolute space and interacting with other particles. Nonetheless, the mystery of what a field 'really is' remains, as do all those other big questions in the standard model, such as the three generations, the number of constants that have to be put in by hand, etc. He seems to be very direct in admitting to ignorance in places where other writers seem to gloss over, such as the origins of matter-antimatter asymmetry, or the long way to go between current particle accelerator energies, and the planck energy, which might contain all kinds of new physics. Plus, he manages to communicate the mysteriousness of the standard model without recourse to mathematics at all. All in all, a great, meaty book, enjoyable for those who want some philosophical thinking about what physics has learned about the nature of the world.Particle or Wave: The Evolution of the Concept of Matter in Modern Physics (History of Science Physics) Overview

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