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: 9780525953593

ISBN-10: 0525953590

ISBN-13: 9780525953593

Edition: 2013

Authors: Sean Carroll

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Scientists are on the brink of the greatest breakthrough in physics since the splitting of the atom: the Higgs boson, the key to understanding why mass exists. Caltech physicist and acclaimed writer Sean Carroll takes readers behind the scenes of the Large Hadron Collider at CERN to meet the scientists and explain this landmark event.What is so special about the Higgs boson? We didn’t really know for sure if anything at the subatomic level had any mass at all until we found it. The fact is, while we have essentially solved the mass question, there are things we didn’t predict. A doorway is opening into the mind boggling, somewhat frightening world of dark matter. We only discovered the…

Book details

List price: $27.95
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 11/13/2012
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 352
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.25" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.518
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



Mass and Spin



Standard Model Particles



Particles and their Interactions


Further Reading


References


Acknowledgments


Index