Smashing Physics
$40.41
- Paperback
352 pages
- Release Date
13 July 2015
Summary
The discovery of the Higgs boson made headlines around the world. Two scientists, Peter Higgs and François Englert, whose theories predicted its existence, shared a Nobel Prize. The discovery was the culmination of the largest experiment ever run, the ATLAS and CMS experiments at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider.
But what really is a Higgs boson and what does it do? How was it found? And how has its discovery changed our understanding of the fundamental laws of nature? And what did it fee…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781472210333 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1472210336 |
| Author: | Jon Butterworth |
| Publisher: | John Murray Press |
| Imprint: | John Murray Publishers Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 352 |
| Release Date: | 13 July 2015 |
| Weight: | 250g |
| Dimensions: | 199mm x 132mm x 22mm |
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Most of the existing popular accounts of the events leading up to the July 2012 discovery claim at CERN are written from a theoretical perspective by outsiders. Jon Butterworth is an experimentalist and is the first to give a vivid account of what the process of discovery was really like for an insider. - Peter Higgs
Read this book! - Brian Cox[A] charming, enlightening bulletin from one of the most exciting fields of human endeavour - The Guardian[An] excellent account of one of the greatest intellectual adventures of modern times … I loved this insider’s story of the discovery of the Higgs boson. - Sunday TimesMore than just another telling of the story of the hunt for the Higgs at the LHC - the reader here is utterly immersed in the politics, excitement and sheer intellectual adventure of discovery… from someone who was actually there! - Jim Al-KhaliliThe story of the search for the Higgs boson is so edge-of-your-seat exciting that it practically tells itself-but still, why not get the story from someone who was there for every step along the way? Jon Butterworth is a talented writer and a world expert in the physics, and his book is hard to put down - Sean Carroll, author of The Particle at the end of the UniverseSeethes with insights on the project’s science, technology and ‘tribes’, as well as his personal (and often amusing) journey as a frontier physicist - NatureAbout The Author
Jon Butterworth
Jon Butterworth is a leading physicist on the Large Hadron Collider, and Head of Physics and Astronomy at UCL. He writes the popular Life & Physics blog for the Guardian and has written articles for a range of publications including the Guardian and New Scientist. Jon often discusses physics in public, including talks at the Royal Institution and the Wellcome Trust and appearances on BBC Radio 4’s Today Programme, The Infinite Monkey Cage, BBC Newsnight, Horizon, Channel 4 News and Al Jazeera. He was awarded the Chadwick Medal of the Institute of Physics in 2013 for his pioneering work in high energy particle physics, especially in the understanding of hadronic jets.
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