| dc.description.abstract | In the course of studying physics I became, like any student of
physics, familiar with many fundamental equations and their solutions,
but I wasn’t really able to see their connection.
I was thrilled when I understood that most of them have a common
origin: symmetry. To me, the most beautiful thing in physics is
when something incomprehensible, suddenly becomes comprehensible,
because of a deep explanation. That’s why I fell in love with
symmetries.
For example, for quite some time I couldn’t really understand
spin, which is some kind of curious internal angular momentum that
almost all fundamental particles carry. Then I learned that spin is
a direct consequence of a symmetry, called Lorentz symmetry, and
everything started to make sense.
Experiences like this were the motivation for this book and in
some sense, I wrote the book I wished had existed when I started my
journey in physics. Symmetries are beautiful explanations for many
otherwise incomprehensible physical phenomena and this book is
based on the idea that we can derive the fundamental theories of
physics from symmetry. | en_US |
