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Massive: The Missing Particle That Sparked the Greatest Hunt in Science (2010)

by Ian Sample

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This science story, the biggest of our time, spans four decades, weaving together the personal narratives and international rivalries behind the search for the "God particle," or Higgs boson. A story of grand ambition, intense competition, clashing egos, and occasionally spectacular failures, Massive is the first book that reveals the science, culture, and politics behind the biggest unanswered question in modern physics--what gives things mass? Drawing upon his unprecedented access to Peter Higgs, after whom the particle is named, science journalist Ian Sample chronicles the multinational and multibillion-dollar quest to solve the mystery of mass. For scientists, to find the God particle is to finally understand the origin of mass, and until now, the story of their search has never been told.--From publisher description.… (more)
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You could skip ahead to the last chapter ( which is the best ) Interesting part about the ' polywater ' catastrophe and all that. First place I've seen anyone talk about ' unparticles ' ( )
  Baku-X | Jan 10, 2017 |
You could skip ahead to the last chapter ( which is the best ) Interesting part about the ' polywater ' catastrophe and all that. First place I've seen anyone talk about ' unparticles ' ( )
  BakuDreamer | Sep 7, 2013 |
The Missing Particle that Sparked the Greatest Hunt in Science_, by Ian Sample, Basic Books, 2010. A science journalist's account of all things Higgs, including the many-person genesis of the idea of the Higgs boson, its relation to electroweak unification and the rest of the Standard Model, and the various particle colliders (the Tevatron, the never-built SSC, the LEP, the LHC) designed with hopes of detecting it.
  fpagan | Feb 22, 2011 |
Lucid captivating writing about how things are made up. Includes history leading up to the LHC at CERN. Beautifully summed up with descriptions of current theories and the implications of actually proving whether the Higgs Boson particle exists. Don't let the subject intimidate you because the author explains everything in lay person's terminology. ( )
  Clueless | Jan 11, 2011 |
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This science story, the biggest of our time, spans four decades, weaving together the personal narratives and international rivalries behind the search for the "God particle," or Higgs boson. A story of grand ambition, intense competition, clashing egos, and occasionally spectacular failures, Massive is the first book that reveals the science, culture, and politics behind the biggest unanswered question in modern physics--what gives things mass? Drawing upon his unprecedented access to Peter Higgs, after whom the particle is named, science journalist Ian Sample chronicles the multinational and multibillion-dollar quest to solve the mystery of mass. For scientists, to find the God particle is to finally understand the origin of mass, and until now, the story of their search has never been told.--From publisher description.

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Sono tutti lì, fuori dai cancelli del CERN, per farsi dire che è vero: il bosone di Higgs esiste. È il 4 luglio 2012. Sono trascorsi cinquant’anni da quando Peter Higgs abbozzava nel suo taccuino la possibilità di una nuova particella; quattro da quando è entrata in funzione la più grande e sofisticata macchina che l’uomo abbia mai concepito e costruito, un colossale anello sotterraneo di otto chilometri di diametro, il Large Hadron Collider. L’obiettivo è completare il Modello Standard, l’insieme delle leggi che governano tutte le particelle dell’universo. Per riuscirci, l’lhc deve catturare e osservare l’ultima di esse che ancora sfugge agli sforzi degli scienziati: il bosone di Higgs, la particella di Dio. In Higgs e il suo bosone, Ian Sample racconta l’epopea scientifica che ha appassionato il mondo intero. Intelligenza, tenacia, talento, scoramenti e coraggio. Big Bang, universo, velocità della luce, urti di particelle. Sperimentare. Caparbiamente. Sperimentare ancora. Cercare l’inesistente per dimostrare che esiste. Oltre dieci anni di lavoro, venti nazioni coinvolte, miliardi di dollari investiti e diecimila scienziati impegnati in tutto il mondo per rispondere a un’unica domanda: perché gli elementi dell’universo hanno assunto una massa? Perché si è passati dal turbine di particelle prive di massa e vaganti alla velocità della luce alle forme conosciute? E che parte ha il bosone in tutto questo?
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