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Beyond the God Particle Leon M. Lederman

Beyond the God Particle By Leon M. Lederman

Beyond the God Particle by Leon M. Lederman


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Beyond the God Particle by Leon M. Lederman

On July 4, 2012, the long-sought Higgs Boson--aka the God Particle--was discovered at the world's largest particle accelerator, the LHC, in Geneva, Switzerland. This elusive subatomic particle forms a field that permeates the entire universe, creating the masses of the elementary particles that are the basic building blocks of everything in the known world--from viruses to elephants, from atoms to quasars. Starting where Nobel Laureate Leon Lederman's bestseller The God Particle left off, this incisive new book explains what's next. Lederman and Hill discuss key questions that will occupy physicists for years to come: * Why were scientists convinced that something like the God Particle had to exist? * What new particles, forces, and laws of physics lie beyond the God Particle? * What powerful new accelerators are now needed for the US to recapture a leadership role in science and to reach beyond the God Particle, such as Fermilab's planned Project-X and the Muon Collider? Using thoughtful, witty, everyday language, the authors show how all of these intriguing questions are leading scientists ever deeper into the fabric of nature. Readers of The God Particle will not want to miss this important sequel.

About Leon M. Lederman

Leon M. Lederman, Nobel Laureate (Batavia, IL) is the author of the highly acclaimed Quantum Physics for Poets and Symmetry and the Beautiful Universe (both coauthored with Christopher T. Hill), as well as The God Particle (with Dick Teresi). He has served as the editor of Portraits of Great American Scientists and a contributor to Science Literacy for the Twenty-First Century. He is formerly the Resident Scholar at the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy and Pritzker Professor of Science at the Illinois Institute of Technology, and he is director emeritus of Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory. Christopher T. Hill, PhD (Batavia, IL) is the coauthor with Leon M. Lederman of Quantum Physics for Poets and Symmetry and the Beautiful Universe. He is a theoretical physicist (Scientist III) and the former head of Theoretical Physics at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory.

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CIN1616148012G
9781616148010
1616148012
Beyond the God Particle by Leon M. Lederman
Used - Good
Hardback
Prometheus Books
20131008
325
N/A
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