Download or read book Gauging What's Real written by Richard Healey and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 2007-09-27 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gauge theories have provided our most successful representations of the fundamental forces of nature. But how do such representations work? Healey aims to answer this question, and defends a distinctive thesis which proves that loops rather than points are the locations of fundamental properties.