Caltech physicist and author Sean Carroll offers listeners this profile of the Large Hadron Collider and the search for the mysterious Higgs boson particle, the subatomic building block that imbues elementary particles with mass....
Higgs bosons
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Author:Sawyer, Robert J.Summary:An experiment in particle physics goes awry, and for a few moments, everyone’s consciousness is catapulted more than twenty years into the future. When the world reawakens, all human life is transformed by foreknowledge.
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The first major biography of Peter Higgs, revealing how a short burst of work changed modern physics On July 4, 2012, the announcement came that one of the longest-running mysteries in physics had been solved: the Higgs boson, the...
- Author:Gillies, JamesSummary:
The Higgs boson is the rock star of fundamental particles, catapulting CERN, the laboratory where it was found, into global spotlight. But what is it, why does it matter, and what exactly is CERN? In the late 1940s, a handful of...
