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| Document Type: | Book |
|---|---|
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Paul Halpern |
| ISBN: | 9780470286203 0470286202 9780470643914 0470643919 9780470486207 0470486201 |
| OCLC Number: | 301885628 |
| Description: | xii, 260 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Contents: | Journey to the heart of the Large Hadron Collider -- The machinery of perfection -- The secrets of creation -- The quest for a theory of everything -- Striking gold : Rutherford's scattering experiments -- Smashing successes : the first accelerators -- A compelling quartet : the four fundamental forces -- A tale of two rings : the Tevatron and the Super Proton Synchrotron -- Deep in the heart of Texas : the rise and fall of the Superconducting Super Collider -- Cashing by design : building the Large Hadron Collider -- Denizens of the dark : resolving the mysteries of dark matter and dark energy -- The brane drain : looking for portals to higher dimensions -- Microscopic black holes : a boon to science or a boom for the world? -- The future of high-energy physics : the International Linear Collider and beyond. |
| Responsibility: | Paul Halpern. |
Abstract:
Understanding what our universe is physically made of is one of the oldest and most researched scientific quandaries to date. In the spring of 2009, the Large Hadron Collider will begin smashing particles to deconstruct matter to its smallest pieces and test the existence of the elusive and theoretical Higgs boson - a.k.a.
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‘…very readable history of our quest to understand the building blocks of matter.' (The Guardian, November 2010).
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