Winner of the prestigious 2013 Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books
âA modern voyage of discovery.â âFrank Wilczek, Nobel Laureate, author of The Lightness of Being
The Higgs boson is one of our eraâs most fascinating scientific frontiers and the key to understanding why mass exists. The most recent book on the subject, The God Particle, was a bestseller. Now, Caltech physicist Sean Carroll documents the doorway that is openingâafter billions of dollars and the efforts of thousands of researchers at the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerlandâinto the mind-boggling world of dark matter. The Particle at the End of the Universe has it all: money and politics, jealousy and self-sacrifice, history and cutting-edge physicsâall grippingly told by a rising star of science writing.
The Particle at the End of the Universe - Sean Carroll
Winner of the prestigious 2013 Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books
âA modern voyage of discovery.â âFrank Wilczek, Nobel Laureate, author of The Lightness of Being
The Higgs boson is one of our eraâs most fascinating scientific frontiers and the key to understanding why mass exists. The most recent book on the subject, The God Particle, was a bestseller. Now, Caltech physicist Sean Carroll documents the doorway that is openingâafter billions of dollars and the efforts of thousands of researchers at the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerlandâinto the mind-boggling world of dark matter. The Particle at the End of the Universe has it all: money and politics, jealousy and self-sacrifice, history and cutting-edge physicsâall grippingly told by a rising star of science writing.