Jim Baggott: Mass: The quest to understand matter from Greek atoms to quantum fields [2017] hardback Condition:New Who held the power

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he receives a pair of anonymous letters highlighting the fates of two women whose deaths were never explained - two more blurred faces among the ranks of the lost and the damned

- Cultivate self-discipline and act courageously

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Jim Baggott: Mass: The quest to understand matter from Greek atoms to quantum fields [2017] hardback Condition:New Who held the powerEverything around us is made of 'stuff', from planets, to books, to our own bodies. Whatever it is, we call it matter or material substance. It is solid; it has mass. But what is matter, exactly? We are taught in school that matter is not continuous, but discrete. As a few of the philosophers of ancient Greece once speculated, nearly two and a half thousand years ago, matter comes in 'lumps', and science has relentlessly peeled away successive layers