Jim Baggott: Mass: The quest to understand matter from Greek atoms to quantum fields [2017] hardback Condition:New he receives a pair of

he receives a pair of anonymous letters highlighting the fates of two women whose deaths were never explained - two more blurred faces among the ranks of the lost and the damned

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Jim Baggott: Mass: The quest to understand matter from Greek atoms to quantum fields [2017] hardback Condition:New he receives a pair ofEverything around us is made of 'stuff', from planets, to books, to our own bodies. Whatever it is, we call it matter or material substance. It is solid; it has mass. But what is matter, exactly? We are taught in school that matter is not continuous, but discrete. As a few of the philosophers of ancient Greece once speculated, nearly two and a half thousand years ago, matter comes in 'lumps', and science has relentlessly peeled away successive layers