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Ideas of Frank Close, by Text
[British, fl. 1983, At the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Oxfordshire.]
2017
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Theories of Everything
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3 'Arrow'
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p.30
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20625
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Third Law: total order and minimum entropy only occurs at absolute zero
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3 'Arrow'
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p.32
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20626
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Modern theories of matter are grounded in heat, work and energy
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3 'Light!'
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p.34
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20627
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Electric fields have four basic laws (two by Gauss, one by Ampère, one by Faraday)
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3 'Light!'
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p.36
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20628
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The electric and magnetic are tightly linked, and viewed according to your own motion
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3 'Light!'
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p.39
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20629
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Electro-magnetic waves travel at light speed - so light is electromagnetism!
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3 'Light!'
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p.48
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20630
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Light isn't just emitted in quanta called photons - light is photons
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3 'Light!'
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p.51
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20631
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Dirac showed how electrons conform to special relativity
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3 'Light!'
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p.56
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20632
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In QED, electro-magnetism exists in quantum states, emitting and absorbing electrons
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3 'Newton's'
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p.21
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20622
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All motions are relative and ambiguous, but acceleration is the same in all inertial frames
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3 'Perpetual'
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p.27
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20623
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First Law: energy can change form, but is conserved overall
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3 'Perpetual'
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p.28
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20624
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Work degrades into heat, but not vice versa
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4 'Higgs'
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p.78
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20633
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The Higgs field is an electroweak plasma - but we don't know what stuff it consists of
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5 'Gravity'
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p.96
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20635
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The general relativity equations relate curvature in space-time to density of energy-momentum
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5 'Planck'
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p.99
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20637
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In general relativity the energy and momentum of photons subjects them to gravity
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6 'Hierarchy'
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p.112
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20641
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Electrons get their mass by interaction with the Higgs field
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6 'Intro'
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p.108
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20639
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Quantum fields contain continual rapid creation and disappearance
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6 'Intro'
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p.109
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20640
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Space-time is indeterminate foam over short distances
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6 'Superstrings'
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p.118
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20642
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Photon exchange drives the electro-magnetic force
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