Particle at the End of the Universe How the Hunt for the Higgs Boson Leads Us to the Edge of a New World

Name: Particle at the End of the Universe How the Hunt for the Higgs Boson Leads Us to the Edge of a New World
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ISBN: 9780142180303

ISBN-10: 0142180300

ISBN-13: 9780142180303

Edition: 2013

Authors: Sean Carroll

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A modern voyage of discovery.” Frank Wilczek, Nobel Laureate, author of The Lightness of BeingTh e Higgs boson is one of our era’s most fascinating scientic frontiers and the key to understanding why mass exists. Th e most recent book on the subject,The God Particle, was a bestseller. Now, Caltech physicist Sean Carroll documents the doorway that is openinga fter billions of dollars and the e fforts of thousands of researchers at the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerlandinto the mind-boggling world of dark matter. The Particle at the End of the Universe has it all: money and politics, jealousy and self-sacrice, history and cutting-edge physicsall grippingly told by a rising star of…

Book details

List price: $17.00
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 8/27/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 400
Size: 5.25" wide x 7.96" long x 0.84" tall
Weight: 0.660
Language: English



Prologue



The Point



Next to Godliness



Atoms and Particles



The Accelerator Story



The Largest Machine Ever Built



Wisdom Through Smashing



Particles in the Waves



Through a Broken Mirror



Bringing Down the House



Spreading the Word



Nobel Dreams



Beyond this Horizon



Making it Worth Defending


Epilogue



Mass and Spin



Standard Model Particles



Particles and their Interactions


Further Reading


References


Acknowledgments


Index