Why the Universe Exists: How particle physics unlocks the secrets of everything

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Mistitled: Book deals with how already-existing nature evolved - neither with why there is something rather than nothing, nor about existentialities, nor about the unoriginated portion of reality, nor about psyches or subjectivities, nor about meaning, sense or purpose if any. But still it provides for a general readership an landscape (one where there is no place for subjectivity or existentiality, alas!), still interesting provided that reality isn´t reduced to evolving cosmological contents, and such a landscape is not mistaken for serious philosophical questioning. As you read this, billions of neutrinos from the sun are passing through your body, antimatter is sprouting from your dinner and the core of your being is a chaotic mess of particles known only as quarks and gluons. Following the recent discovery of the Higgs Boson, Why The Universe Exists takes you deeper into the world of particle physics, exploring how the universe functions at the smallest scales. Find out about the hunt for dark matter, discover how accelerators such as the Large Hadron Collider are rewinding time to the first moments after the big bang, and learn how ghostly neutrino particles may hold the answers to the greatest mysteries of the universe.