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The Particle at the End of the Universe

The Particle at the End of the Universe

How the Hunt for the Higgs Boson Leads Us to the Edge of a New World

by Sean Carroll
Paperback
Publication Date: 27/08/2013

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Winner of the prestigious 2013 Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books

"A modern voyage of discovery." -Frank Wilczek, Nobel Laureate, author of The Lightness of Being

The Higgs boson is one of our era's most fascinating scientific frontiers and the key to understanding why mass exists. The most recent book on the subject, The God Particle, was a bestseller. Now, Caltech physicist Sean Carroll documents the doorway that is opening-after billions of dollars and the efforts of thousands of researchers at the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland-into the mind-boggling world of dark matter. The Particle at the End of the Universe has it all: money and politics, jealousy and self-sacrifice, history and cutting-edge physics-all grippingly told by a rising star of science writing.
ISBN:
9780142180303
9780142180303
Category:
Nuclear physics
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
27-08-2013
Language:
English
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Country of origin:
United Kingdom
Pages:
400
Dimensions (mm):
202x134x23mm
Weight:
0.33kg
Sean Carroll

Sean Carroll is a theoretical physicist at the California Institute of Technology. He won the Royal Society Winton Prize for his book on the search for the elusive Higgs boson, The Particle at the End of the Universe, and his most recent book, The Big Picture, was an international bestseller. He lives in Los Angeles.

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