Murray Gell-Mann Bücher

"Es ist immer ein Vergnügen, mitzuerleben, wie ein erstklassiger Denker mit den größten Geheimnissen ringt und gleichzeitig entschlossen der Versuchung widersteht, irgendeinem Mystizismus zu verfallen." (Carl Sagan)§Der Physiker Gell-Mann, Erfinder der Quarks und vielleicht der bedeutendste Physiker der 2. Jahrhunderthälfte, stellt in seinem ersten für ein breiteres Publikum geschriebenen Werk sein Konzept der Komplexität vor. Es zeigt, wie man das Einfache und das Komplexe zu einem Modell zusammenfügen kann, um die Welt besser zu verstehen und Lösungen zu finden, die helfen, unsere natürliche Umwelt zu erhalten.§

The book features thirty research papers focused on the classification of strongly interacting particles through the lens of the eightfold way. Each chapter includes the authors' commentary, providing context and insights into the reprints, enhancing the reader's understanding of particle interactions and classifications in this specialized field of study.

Today it is known that the atomic nuclei are composed of smaller constituents, the quarks. A quark is always bound with two other quarks, forming a baryon or with an antiquark, forming a meson. The quark model was first postulated in 1964 by Murray Gell-Mann — who coined the name “quark” from James Joyce's novel Finnegans Wake — and by George Zweig, who then worked at CERN. In the present theory of strong interactions — Quantum Chromodynamics proposed by H Fritzsch and Gell-Mann in 1972 — the forces that bind the quarks together are due to the exchange of eight gluons.On the 50th anniversary of the quark model, this invaluable volume looks back at the developments and achievements in the elementary particle physics that eventuated from that beautiful model. Written by an international team of distinguished physicists, each of whom have made major developments in the field, the volume provides an essential overview of the present state to the academics and researchers.

This book provides an explanation of the connections between nature at its most basic level and natural selection, archaeology, linguistics, child development, computers and other complex adaptive systems.