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Loading... Higgs Force: The Symmetry-Breaking Force that Makes the World an Interesting Placeby Nicholas Mee
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. This is a good review of things , if you're already very familar with all this. One page about Higgs and a photograph ( ) 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. no reviews | add a review
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. No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)539.721Natural sciences and mathematics Physics Matter; Molecular Physics; Atomic and Nuclear physics; Radiation; Quantum Physics Atomic and nuclear physics Particle PhysicsLC ClassificationRatingAverage:
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