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The Infinity Puzzle - The personalities, politics, and extraordinary science behind the Higgs boson (Paperback)
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The Infinity Puzzle - The personalities, politics, and extraordinary science behind the Higgs boson (Paperback)
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Discovery Miles 3 460
You Save R69 (17%)
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We are living in a Golden Age of Physics. Forty or so years ago,
three brilliant, yet little-known scientists - an American, a
Dutchman, and an Englishman - made breakthroughs which later
inspired the construction of the Large Hadron Collider at CERN in
Geneva: a 27 kilometre-long machine that cost ten billion dollars,
took twenty years to build, and finally discovered a particle
consistent with the Higgs boson. The Infinity Puzzle is the inside
story of those forty years of research, breakthrough, and
endeavour. Peter Higgs, Gerard 't Hooft and James Bjorken were the
three scientists whose work is explored here, played out across the
decades against a backdrop of high politics, low behaviour, and
billion dollar budgets. Written by Frank Close, the eminent
physicist and award-winning writer, The Infinity Puzzle also draws
upon the author's close friendships with those involved. In July
2012, in the days leading up to the momentous announcement that the
Higgs boson had indeed been discovered, Frank Close and Peter Higgs
were together at a conference in Sicily. In this paperback edition,
Close includes a substantial epilogue reflecting on the
announcement, its implications, and the impact on Peter Higgs and
others.
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