The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is the biggest, and by far the
most powerful, machine ever built. A project of CERN, the European
Organization for Nuclear Research, its audacious purpose is to
re-create, in a 16.5-mile-long circular tunnel under the
French-Swiss countryside, the immensely hot and dense conditions
that existed some 13.7 billion years ago within the first
trillionth of a second after the fiery birth of our universe.
In "Present at the Creation, "Amir D. Aczel takes us inside the
control rooms, as an international team of researchers begins to
discover whether a multibillion-euro investment will fulfill its
promise: to find empirical confirmation of theories in physics and
cosmology. Through the eyes and words of the men and women who
conceived and built CERN and the LHC, Aczel enriches all of us with
a firm grounding in the scientific concepts necessary to appreciate
fully the stunning July 4, 2012 discovery of the Higgs Boson. Newly
updated in the wake of the discovery, "Present at the Creation"
tells the story of perhaps the greatest experiment in the history
of science.
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