Emmy equals Einstein squared

摘要

"If we're trying to understand all that there is, we're going to have to dig a little bit deeper," says astrophysicist Dave Goldberg, laying out his ambition for this book. This ambition is nothing less than to illuminate the basis of modern physics and, arguably, the fulcrum of our knowledge of the world - the idea of symmetry. Symmetry is more than the aesthetic balance in colonnades and butterfly wings. In the much more general, physics sense, it can apply to time, space, electrical charge, spin, and even more abstruse properties of matter.