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Large Hadron Collider, The: The Greatest Adventure In Town And Ten Reasons Why It Matters, As Illustrated By The Atlas Experiment (Hardcover)
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Large Hadron Collider, The: The Greatest Adventure In Town And Ten Reasons Why It Matters, As Illustrated By The Atlas Experiment (Hardcover)
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When the discovery of the Higgs Boson at CERN hit the headlines in
2012, the world was stunned by this achievement of modern science.
Less well appreciated, however, were the many ways in which this
benefited wider society.The Large Hadron Collider - The Greatest
Adventure in Town charts a path through the cultural, economic and
medical gains of modern particle physics. It illustrates these
messages through the ATLAS experiment at CERN, one of the two big
experiments which found the Higgs particle. Moving clear of
in-depth physics analysis, it draws on the unparalleled curiosity
about particle physics aroused by the Higgs discovery, and relates
it to developments familiar in the modern world, including the
Internet, its successor 'The Grid', and the latest cancer
treatments.In this book, advances made from developing the 27
kilometre particle accelerator and its detectors are presented with
the benefit of first hand interviews and are extensively
illustrated throughout. Interviewees are leading physicists
including successive heads of ATLAS, a top historian of science, a
highly original economic strategist, a Nobel Prize-winning
geneticist and President of the Royal Society in London, and
experts in many other fields. These informative and entertaining
insights provide both specialists and non-specialists alike with a
unique window into the world of modern international research and
its often surprising consequences, as exemplified by the ATLAS
experiment. The narrative reveals the extent and style of
international collaboration necessary to achieve success, and how
big companies as well as start-ups enhance their products in the
process.
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