物理学十大思想：理解宇宙的基础 Top Ten Ideas of Physics: Foundations for Understanding the Universe

基本信息

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Princeton University Press

Publication date ‏ : ‎ 17 Jun. 2025

Language ‏ : ‎ English

Print length ‏ : ‎ 352 pages

ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 069122580X

ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0691225807

Item weight ‏ : ‎ 748 g

Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 16.51 x 2.54 x 24.13 cm

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书籍简介

经受住时间考验的十大理论物理学思想

还有什么比“我们所处的现实世界不过是对我们几乎无法触及的底层量子世界的近似描述”更出人意料、更令人震惊的呢？这只是A. Zee在本书中探讨的理论物理学奠基石之一。跟随他一起，了解他列出的物理学十大伟大、令人叹为观止的思想——这些思想从根本上改变了我们对宇宙的理解。

《物理学十大思想》讲述了一个引人入胜的故事，并解释了每个思想的含义及其由来。榜单之前是物理世界是可以理解的，以及物理定律在任何地方都相同。随着故事的展开，看似坚实的世界逐渐瓦解，化作一张交织缠绕的场网络，当我们深入探究时，会找到其中蕴含着更加复杂的对称性。读者会逐渐明白，物理真理是普遍的，而非相对的；多元宇宙中的力量并非彼此分离的碎片，而是一个不可分割的整体——这一愿景在今天仅部分得以实现。

凭借泽伊标志性的幽默和对物理的深刻洞察，《物理学十大理念》揭示了为何自然之书是用数学语言写成的，为何熵与信息紧密相连，以及为何作用原理是万物运行的根本。

The ten biggest ideas in theoretical physics that have withstood the test of time

Could any discovery be more unexpected and shocking than the realization that the reality we were born into is but an approximation of an underlying quantum world that is barely within our grasp? This is just one of the foundational pillars of theoretical physics that A. Zee discusses in this book. Join him as he presents his Top Ten List of the biggest, most breathtaking ideas in physics―the ones that have fundamentally transformed our understanding of the universe.

Top Ten Ideas of Physics tells a story that will keep readers enthralled, along the way explaining the meaning of each idea and how it came about. Leading the list are the notions that the physical world is comprehensible and that the laws of physics are the same here, there, and everywhere. As the story unfolds, the apparently solid world dissolves into an intertwining web of dancing fields, exhibiting greater symmetries as we examine them at deeper and deeper levels. Readers come to see how physical truth is universal, not relative, and how the forces in the multiverse are not disparate pieces but an indivisible unity―a vision only partially realized today.

With Zee’s trademark blend of wit and physical insight, Top Ten Ideas of Physics reveals why the book of nature is written in the language of mathematics, why entropy and information are intimately linked, and why the action principle underpins the choreography of all that exists.

作者简介

A. Zee 是加州大学圣巴巴拉分校卡弗里理论物理研究所的物理学教授。他的著作颇丰，包括《尽可能简明的量子场论》、《夜间飞行物理学》、《论引力》、《物理学家简明群论》、《简明爱因斯坦引力》、《简明量子场论》和《可怕的对称性》（以上均为普林斯顿大学出版社出版）。

A. Zee is professor of physics at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His many books include Quantum Field Theory, as Simply as Possible; Fly by Night Physics; On Gravity; Group Theory in a Nutshell for Physicists; Einstein Gravity in a Nutshell; Quantum Field Theory in a Nutshell; and Fearful Symmetry (all Princeton).