Origins of mass

Newtonian mechanics posited mass as a primary quality of matter, incapable of further elucidation. We now see Newtonian mass as an emergent property. That mass-concept is tremendously useful in the approximate description of baryon-dominated matter at low energy — that is, the standard “matter” of e...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Wilczek, Frank
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Versita (Central European Science Journals) 2013
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/76733
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6489-6155