The particle at the end of the universe how the hunt for the Higgs boson leads us to the edge of a new world
Caltech physicist and author Sean Carroll offers listeners this profile of the Large Hadron Collider and the search for the mysterious Higgs boson particle, the subatomic building block that imbues elementary particles with mass. Carroll chronicles how such a complex project got off the ground in th...
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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Dutton,
2012.
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| Summary: | Caltech physicist and author Sean Carroll offers listeners this profile of the Large Hadron Collider and the search for the mysterious Higgs boson particle, the subatomic building block that imbues elementary particles with mass. Carroll chronicles how such a complex project got off the ground in the first place and explains why this discovery is so important, and what it means for the future of physics. |
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| Physical Description: | x, 341 p., [16] p. of plates : col. ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780525953593 (hc.) 0525953590 (hc.) |
| Author Notes: | His television appearances include the The Universe on the History Channel, Through the Wormhole with Morgan Freeman on the Science Channel and The Colbert Report on Comedy Central. He is the author of Spacetime and Geometry, From Eternity to Here, The Particle at the End of the Universe (2013 winner of the Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books), and The Big Picture: On the Origins of Life, Meaning, and the Universe Itself. (Bowker Author Biography) |
