The God Particle If the Universe Is the Answer What Is the Question 1st Edition by Leon Lederman, Dick Teresi 9780618711680 0618711686
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ISBN 10: 0618711686
ISBN 13: 9780618711680
Author: Leon Lederman, Dick Teresi
A Nobel Prize–winning physicist’s “funny, clever, entertaining” account of the history of particle physics and the hunt for a Higgs boson (Library Journal). In this extraordinarily accessible and witty book, Leon Lederman—“the most engaging physicist since the late, much-missed Richard Feynman” (San Francisco Examiner)—offers a fascinating tour that takes us from the Greeks’ earliest scientific observations through Einstein and beyond in an inspiring celebration of human curiosity. It ends with the quest for the Higgs boson, nicknamed the God Particle, which scientists hypothesize will help unlock the last secrets of the subatomic universe. This is not only an enlightening journey through baryons and hadrons and leptons and electrons—it also “may be the funniest book about physics ever written” (The Dallas Morning News). “One of the clearest, most enjoyable new science books in years . . . explains the entire history of physics and cosmology. En route, you’ll laugh so hard you won’t realize how much you are learning.” —San Francisco Examiner “The story of the search for the ultimate constituents of matter has been told many times before, but never with more verve and wit. . . . His hilarious account of how he helped persuade President Reagan to approve the construction of the Super Collider is itself worth the price of the book.” —Los Angeles Times
Table of contents:
Chapter 1 Dramatis Personae
Chapter 2 The Invisible Soccer Ball
Chapter 3 The First Particle Physicist
Chapter 4 Interlude A: A Tale of Two Cities
Chapter 5 Looking for the Atom: The Mechanics
Chapter 6 Still Looking for the Atom: Chemists and Electricians
Chapter 7 The Naked Atom
Chapter 8 Interlude B: The Dancing Moo-Shu Masters
Chapter 9 Accelerators: They Smash Atoms, Don’t They?
Chapter 10 Interlude C: How We Violated Parity in a Weekend . . . and Discovered God
Chapter 11 A-Tom!
Chapter 12 The God Particle At Last
Chapter 13 Inner Space, Outer Space, and the Time Before Time
Chapter 14 Acknowledgments
Chapter 15 A Note on History and Sources
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