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The god particle : if the universe is the answer, what is the question?
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The god particle : if the universe is the answer, what is the question?

Author: Leon M Lederman; Dick Teresi
Publisher: New York : Dell Pub., [1994]
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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The world's foremost experimental physicist uses humor, metaphor, and storytelling to delve into the mysteries of matter, discussing the as-yet-to-be-discovered god particle.
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Genre/Form: Constitution
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Leon M Lederman; Dick Teresi
ISBN: 0385312113 9780385312110
OCLC Number: 29839853
Notes: "February 1994"--T.p. verso.
"Delta trade paperbacks."
"A Delta book"--T.p. verso.
Originally published as hbk.: Boston : Houghton Mifflin, c1993.
Description: 434 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents: The invisible soccer ball --
The first particle physicist --
Interlude A : a tale of two cities --
Looking for the atom : the mechanics --
Still looking for the atom : chemists and electricians --
The naked atom --
Interlude B : the dancing Moo-Shu masters --
Accelerators : they smash atoms, don't they? --
Interlude C : how we violated parity in a weekend and discovered God --
A-tom! --
The god particle at last --
Inner space, outer space, and the time before time.
Responsibility: Leon Lederman, with Dick Teresi ; [drawings by Mary Reilly]

Abstract:

The world's foremost experimental physicist uses humor, metaphor, and storytelling to delve into the mysteries of matter, discussing the as-yet-to-be-discovered god particle.

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