Libro Present at the Creation: Discovering the Higgs Boson De Amir D. Aczel

portada Present at the Creation: Discovering the Higgs Boson

Formato

Libro Físico

Editorial

Broadway Books

Autor

Amir D. Aczel

Año

2011

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

288

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

ISBN13

9780307591821

Categorías

Historia de la ciencia

Present at the Creation: Discovering the Higgs Boson

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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.