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Higgs Force: The Symmetry-Breaking Force that Makes the World an Interesting Place

by Nicholas Mee

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Higgs Force is a gripping account of the scientists who have revealed the hidden structure of the natural world. It is the story of the fundamental components of matter and the forces that bind them together; a tale that is woven around the symmetry at the heart of the universe and the mystery of how this symmetry is broken. The book is divided into three parts. The first three chapters provide the broad historical and philosophical context. The next three describe, in turn, each of the forces that are important in particle physics. The final three chapters are about the modern synthesis of the particles and forces and the search for the last missing piece in the particle physics jigsaw.… (more)
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This is a good review of things , if you're already very familar with all this. One page about Higgs and a photograph ( )
  Baku-X | Jan 10, 2017 |
This is a good review of things , if you're already very familar with all this. One page about Higgs and a photograph ( )
  BakuDreamer | Sep 7, 2013 |
Mostly *lead-up* to the title topic -- a popular-level intro to fundamental physics, especially particle physics, taking the historical approach. By my count, excluding passing mentions, only 15 pages are devoted to discussions of the Higgs sector of the Standard Model, so that the title would seem to have been opportunistically chosen in anticipation of the LHC's post-publication discovery of the Higgs boson. But I'm being too critical -- the book *is* knowledgably written and a good read.
  fpagan | Jul 16, 2012 |
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Higgs Force is a gripping account of the scientists who have revealed the hidden structure of the natural world. It is the story of the fundamental components of matter and the forces that bind them together; a tale that is woven around the symmetry at the heart of the universe and the mystery of how this symmetry is broken. The book is divided into three parts. The first three chapters provide the broad historical and philosophical context. The next three describe, in turn, each of the forces that are important in particle physics. The final three chapters are about the modern synthesis of the particles and forces and the search for the last missing piece in the particle physics jigsaw.

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