Playing By Ear by John Geraghty
The Higgs boson is the rock star of fundamental particles, catapulting CERN, the laboratory where it was found, into the global spotlight. But what is it, why does it matter, and what exactly is CERN?
In the late 1940s, a handful of visionaries were working to steer Europe towards a more peaceful future through science, and CERN, the European particle physics laboratory, was duly born. James Gillies tells the gripping story of particle physics, from the original atomists of ancient Greece, through the people who made the crucial breakthroughs, to CERN itself, one of the most ambitious scientific undertakings of our time, and its eventual confirmation of the Higgs boson.
Weaving together the scientific and political stories of CERN's development, the book reveals how particle physics has evolved from being the realm of solitary genius to a global field of human endeavour, with CERN's Large Hadron Collider as its frontier research tool.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780993355813 |
| ISBN 10 | 0993355811 |
| Title | Playing By Ear |
| Author | John Geraghty |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Green Olive Publications Ltd |
| Year published | 2020-11-20 |
| Number of pages | 112 |
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