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Higgs Discovery: The Power of Empty Space

By Lisa Randall

Book information

Publisher
Ecco
Year
2013
ISBN
0062300474, 9780062300478
Language
english
Format
MOBI
Filesize
831 kB (850699 bytes)
Pages
112\0
Time added
2013-10-31 23:47:55

Description

On July 4, 2012, physicists at the Large Hadron Collider in Geneva madehistory when they discovered an entirely new type of subatomic particle that many scientists believe is the Higgs boson. For forty years, physicists searched for this capstone to the Standard Model of particle physics—the theory that describes both the most elementary components that are known in matter and the forces through which they interact. This particle points to the Higgs field, which provides the key to understanding why elementary particles have mass. In Higgs Discovery, Lisa Randall explains the science behind this monumental discovery, its exhilarating implications, and the power of empty space.

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