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Who Cares about Particle Physics?: Making Sense of the Higgs Boson, the Large Hadron Collider and CERN
Who Cares about Particle Physics?: Making Sense of the Higgs Boson, the Large Hadron Collider and CERN
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The European Laboratory for particle physics, CERN, conducts research in particle physics that impacts people's daily lives. The discovery of the Higgs boson is important because it helps to explain the existence of dark matter, a form of matter five times more prevalent than the known, regular matter. The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN was constructed by sixty countries and is used by international teams of researchers to push scientific knowledge forward. This book is written for people who wish to learn more about particle physics without requiring prior scientific knowledge, and it starts from the basics to build a solid understanding of current research.
Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 272 pages
Publication date: 19 April 2018
Publisher: Oxford University Press
The European Laboratory for particle physics, CERN, is a regular source of news. What kind of research takes place at this international laboratory and how does it affect people's daily lives? Why is the discovery of the Higgs boson so important?
Particle physics is a field that describes all matter found on Earth, in stars, and all galaxies, but it also seeks to go beyond what is known to describe dark matter, a form of matter that is five times more prevalent than the known, regular matter. How do we know that this mysterious dark matter exists and is there a chance that it will be discovered soon?
About sixty countries contributed to the construction of the gigantic Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN, and its immense detectors. Dive in to discover how international teams of researchers work together to push scientific knowledge forward.
Here is a book written for every person who wishes to learn a little more about particle physics, without requiring prior scientific knowledge. It starts from the basics to build a solid understanding of current research in particle physics. A good dose of curiosity is all one will need to discover a whole world that spans from the infinitesimally small and stretches to the infinitely large, and where imminent discoveries could mark the dawn of a huge revolution in the current conception of the material world.
Weight: 384g
Dimension: 138 x 216 x 20 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780198826279
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