Most Wanted Particle: The Inside Story of the Hunt for the Higgs, the Heart of the Future of Physics 9781615193011

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Автор: Butterworth Jon
Название: Most Wanted Particle: The Inside Story of the Hunt for the Higgs, the Heart of the Future of Physics
Перевод названия: Джон Баттерворт: Самые желаемые подробности
ISBN: 9781615193011
Издательство: Experiment
Классификация: ISBN-10: 1615193014
Обложка/Формат: Paperback
Страницы: 320
Вес: 0.27 кг.
Дата издания: 08.03.2016
Язык: English
Размер: 206 x 137 x 25
Поставляется из: США
Описание: Now in paperback: the vivid account of what the process of discovery was really like for an insider.--Peter Higgs

Particle physics as we know it depends on the Higgs boson: Its the missing link between the birth of our universe--as a sea of tiny, massless particles--and the tangible world we live in today. But for more than 50 years, scientists wondered: Does it exist?

Physicist Jon Butterworth was at the frontlines of the hunt for the Higgs at CERNs Large Hadron Collider--perhaps the most ambitious experiment in history. In Most Wanted Particle, he gives us the first inside account of that uncertain time, when an entire field hinged on a single particle, and life at the cutting edge of science meant media scrutiny, late-night pub debates, dispiriting false starts in the face of intense pressure, and countless hours at the collider itself. As Butterworth explains, our first glimpse of the elusive Higgs brings us a giant step closer to understanding the universe--and points the way to an entirely new kind of physics.

Most Wanted Particle: The Inside Story of the Hunt for the Higgs, the Heart of the Future of Physics, Butterworth Jon