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The infinity puzzle : how the hunt to understand the universe led to extraordinary science, high politics, and the large hadron collider / Frank Close.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780307399816 (hc) :
- Physical Description: xii, 435 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
- Publisher: Toronto : Alfred A. Knopf Canada, c2011.
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| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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| Subject: | Higgs bosons. Infinite. Large Hadron Collider (France and Switzerland) Quantum field theory. |
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- 1 of 1 copy available at Tsuga Consortium.
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We are living in a Golden Age of physics. With the mind of a scientist and the skill of a journalist, bestselling author and renowned physicist Frank Close gives us an insider's look at one of the most inspiring - and challenging - scientific breakthroughs of our time: the Large Hadron Collider in Geneva.
About 40 years ago, 3 brilliant, yet little-known scientists made breakthroughs that later inspired the construction of the Large Hadron Collider at CERN in Geneva: a 27-kilometre-long machine which has already cost $10 billion, taken 20 years to build and now promises to reveal how the universe itself came to be. The Infinity Puzzle is the inside story of those 40 years of research, breakthrough and endeavour. The work of Peter Higgs, Gerard 't Hooft and James Bjorken is explored here, played out across the decades against a backdrop of high politics, low behaviour and billion-dollar budgets. InThe Infinity Puzzle, eminent physicist and award-winning author Frank Close writes from within the action and draws upon his close friendships with those involved.
