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I would be intrigued to hear that talk, too. I would be even more intrigued if someone could write a book about E8 mathematics! Why is that there is so much talk about the exceptional groups, but so little literature about them? Almost any Lie groups/ lie algebra book neglects them...

I want to learn about Monster group, Leech lattice, exceptional Lie groups and all that stuff. What books do you recommend reading? Or are there only very specialized papers on these topics yet? How did the participants of this thread learned these things?

The book is now much cheaper, also https://www.amazon.com/dp/0521842638/?tag=pfamazon01-20 let's you search in the book now. Any more comments from people who have read the book already?

Masudr, look http://www2.physics.utoronto.ca/~luke/PHY2403/References.html" .

You right, Greiner is great at that, have not checked him lately, though. Of course not so beautifully streamlined like P&S, or so original, compact and 'big picture' like Zee. Also heard a https://www.amazon.com/dp/0071543821/?tag=pfamazon01-20 book is coming out. Sounds like a book for...

I know opinions differ on P&S, or on just any QFT texts in general. For me, P&S did not work. As I said before, what bothers me most with QFT texts is that they do not provide careful enough explanations of the little tricks and techniques to get from equation X to equation Y. Given that QFT is...

muchísimas gracias, Rainbow Child! Very much appreciated, your answer and your effort writting the latex code. Unfortunately harmless looking equations like these above and all the little tricks you need to know to manipulate them are never explained proper in almost all QFT texts...

In Zee's QFT in a nutshell on page 236 between equations (1) and (2), the authors goes to polar coordinates and gets a new gauge derivative.Sure it 's simple, but I can't see how he gets it. thanks for any help

First google search site for 'quantum mechanics postulates' gives this http://www.google.de/search?hl=de&q=quantum+mechanics+postulates&btnG=Google-Suche&meta=

I also like to add one question! What particles are they smashing at another to get Higgs particle?

ahh, this virtual versus real particle business! Keep forgetting and misunderstanding it. So Higgs is sort of like the gluon field?

But why the need of producing them? Don't they give all particles mass, so shouldn't they be ubiqious?

They say Higgs particles are so hard to detect because their mass is so big. But when their mass is so big, wouldn't that make them easier to detect?

The argumentation above could be understood that photons can not turn in something else. But of course there is pair production.

You the man, OrderOfThings. All what you wrote here went straight in my notebook. I honestly hope you get paid for your knowledge. Now a complete different things, but which is not worth a own thread. John Baez defines http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/octonions/node13.html" the...