Gauging what's real the conceptual foundations of contemporary gauge theories

Gauge theories have provided our most successful representations of the fundamental forces of nature. But how do such representations work? Healey aims to answer this question, and defends a distinctive thesis which proves that loops rather than points are the locations of fundamental properties

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Main Author: Healey, Richard
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford Oxford University Press 2007, 2007
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Collection: Oxford University Press - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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Summary:Gauge theories have provided our most successful representations of the fundamental forces of nature. But how do such representations work? Healey aims to answer this question, and defends a distinctive thesis which proves that loops rather than points are the locations of fundamental properties
Physical Description:xix, 297 p. ill
ISBN:9780191713453
0191713457