TY - BOOK AU - Oerter,Robert TI - The theory of almost everything: the Standard Model, the unsung triumph of modern physics SN - 0132366789 AV - QC794.6 OER PY - 2006/// CY - New York PB - Pi KW - Standard model (Nuclear physics) KW - Nuclear physics N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. [311]-317) and index; Standard model (Nuclear physics) -- The first unifications -- Einstein's relativity and Noether's theorem -- The end of the world as we know it - Improbabilities -- The bizarre reality of QED -- Feynman's particles -- Schwinger's fields -- Welcome to the subatomic zoo -- The color of quarks -- The weakest link -- The standard model, at last -- The edge of physics -- New dimensions -- Quarks and the eightfold way -- Asymptotic freedom -- Interactions of the standard model ER -