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Mass, Ether, and the Unification of Forces
by Frank Wilczek
"Want to know what it's all about? Here's a book that candidly tells you what 'it' is. And just about everything you thought about 'it' is wrong. Accessible, charming, and cheeky, The Lightness of Being reveals a universe where matter is the hum of strange music, mass doesn't weigh, and empty space is a multilayered, multicolored superconductor."
K.C. Cole
author of Mind Over Matter: Conversations with the Cosmos
Almost without our noticing, our understanding of nature's deepest reality has changed radically over the past quarter-century. We are now tantalizingly close to a long-sought breakthrough: the Grand Unification of the fundamental forces of nature.
Acclaimed physicist and Nobel Laureate Frank Wilczek has played a lead role in establishing these new paradigms. Transcending older ideas about matter and space, he explains a remarkable new discovery: Matter is built from almost weightless units, and pure energy is the ultimate source of mass. Wilczek calls this discovery "The Lightness of Being." But he also shows us much more. Space is no mere container, empty and passive. It is a dynamic Grid -- a modern ether. The Grid is more fundamental than any "fundamental" particle; its spontaneous activity creates and destroys particles. This new understanding of mass and "empty space" explains the puzzling feebleness of gravity and brings a gorgeous unification of all the forces of nature into sharp focus.
The Lightness of Being is the first book to explore the implications of these revolutionary ideas. Wilczek presents a stunning new view of our fantastic universe and envisions a new golden age in fundamental physics.
From: Book Jacket