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Loading... Massive: The Missing Particle That Sparked the Greatest Hunt in Science (2010)by Ian Sample
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. 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 ' ( ) 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. 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. no reviews | add a review
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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. 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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