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Names: Frampton, Paul H., author. | Kim, Jihn E., author.
Title: History of particle theory : between Darwin and Shakespeare /
Paul H. Frampton, Jihn E. Kim.
Description: Hackensack : World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., 2020. | Includes index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2020029270 | ISBN 9789811224652 (hardcover) |
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Contents
Chapter 5: Darwinian Evolution
Chapter 8: Electroweak Unification
Preface
This is a popular book about the history of particle theory, the study of the smallest particles of matter.
We must explain the peculiar choice of subtitle, Between Darwin and Shakespeare, which might at first appear to have no connection to physics. In part, we wanted a catchy subtitle that has never been used before.
The first of our two subtitular heroes Charles Darwin (1809–1882) achieved immortality by his publication of The Origin of Species in 1859. It transformed the subject of theoretical biology by introducing and making convincing arguments for natural selection and evolution. In our popular book, we wish to describe the evolution of the physics of particle theory up to the 21st century, quite analogous to Darwin’s discussions of evolution in biology, because there is a similar natural selection between theories based on those which agree with experiment; it is likewise a survival of the fittest.