Higgs Discovery: The Power of Empty Space

Higgs Discovery: The Power of Empty Space
ISBN-10
0062300474
ISBN-13
9780062300478
Category
Science
Pages
112
Language
English
Published
2013-09-24
Publisher
Ecco
Author
Lisa Randall

Description

On July 4, 2012, physicists at the Large Hadron Collider in Geneva madehistory when they discovered an entirely new type of subatomic particle that many scientists believe is the Higgs boson. For forty years, physicists searched for this capstone to the Standard Model of particle physics—the theory that describes both the most elementary components that are known in matter and the forces through which they interact. This particle points to the Higgs field, which provides the key to understanding why elementary particles have mass. In Higgs Discovery, Lisa Randall explains the science behind this monumental discovery, its exhilarating implications, and the power of empty space.

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