The particle at the end of the universe : how the hunt for the Higgs boson leads us to the edge of a new world / Sean Carroll.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Carroll, Sean, 1966-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Higgs bosons.

Physical Description:

x, 341 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Dutton, [2012]

Summary:

Scientists have just announced an historic discovery on a par with the splitting of the atom: the Higgs boson, the key to understanding why mass exists has been found. Carroll takes readers behind the scenes of the Large Hadron Collider at CERN to meet the scientists and explain this landmark event. We only discovered the electron just over a hundred years ago and considering where that took us-- from nuclear energy to quantum computing-- the inventions that will result from the Higgs discovery will be world-changing.

Contents:

Prologue

The point

Next to godliness

Atoms and particles

The accelerator story

The largest machine ever built

Wisdom through smashing

Particles in the waves

Through a broken mirror

Bringing down the house

Spreading the word

Nobel dreams

Beyond this horizon

Making it worth defending.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780525953593

0525953590

OCLC:

795168227