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Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Carl Sagan famously said, 'If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.' But what fundamental matter is the universe made of? What banged in the Big Bang? And how did that matter arise from nothing into the world we now know? In [this book], Harry Cliff--a University of Cambridge particle physicist, researcher on the Large Hadron Collider, and acclaimed science presenter--sets out in pursuit of answers"--
Author
Publisher
Firefly Books Ltd
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"A unique and fascinating exploration of the building blocks that make up our Universe, Particle physics brick by brick illustrates and illuminates the twelve core building block particles and the forces that act upon them to create the world as we know it. Starting with the Big Bang and ending with the Higgs boson particle and the future beyond, this is a comprehensive and uniquely visual guide to quantum physics"--Back cover.
Author
Series
Scientific American Library volume no. 28
Publisher
Distributed by W.H. Freeman
Pub. Date
c1989
Language
English
Author
Publisher
The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
A guide to high-energy physics from the early twentieth century to the present, including such highlights as Ernest Rutherford's 1911 explanation of the nucleus, the newly discovered Higgs boson, and anecdotes about famous physicists.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
[1993]
Language
English
Description
The quest began in 430 B.C. when a Greek philosopher smelled bread baking and imagined that an invisible particle might be the building block of all matter. He called it the a-tom - "that which cannot be cut" - and its pursuit has become science's longest-running experiment. Now, in a book of dazzling originality, Nobel laureate Leon Lederman tells the story of the 2,500-year search for the answer to an ancient question: what is the world made of?...