The Infinity Puzzle: How the Hunt to Understand the Universe Led to Extraordinary Science, High Politics, and the Large Hadron Collider

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Knopf Canada, 29. nov. 2011 - 448 strani
We are living in a Golden Age of physics. With the mind of a scientist and the skill of a journalist, bestselling author and renowned physicist Frank Close gives us an insider's look at one of the most inspiring - and challenging - scientific breakthroughs of our time: the Large Hadron Collider in Geneva.

About 40 years ago, 3 brilliant, yet little-known scientists made breakthroughs that later inspired the construction of the Large Hadron Collider at CERN in Geneva: a 27-kilometre-long machine which has already cost $10 billion, taken 20 years to build and now promises to reveal how the universe itself came to be. The Infinity Puzzle is the inside story of those 40 years of research, breakthrough and endeavour. The work of Peter Higgs, Gerard 't Hooft and James Bjorken is explored here, played out across the decades against a backdrop of high politics, low behaviour and billion-dollar budgets. In The Infinity Puzzle, eminent physicist and award-winning author Frank Close writes from within the action and draws upon his close friendships with those involved.

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FRANK CLOSE is professor of theoretical physics at Oxford University, dean of Graduate Studies and fellow of Exeter College, Oxford. He has been fellow of the Institute of Physics since 1991, and was awarded the Institute's Kelvin Medal for his contributions to the Public Understanding of Physics. He was formerly the head of the Theoretical Physics Division at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, and head of communications and public education at CERN. He is the author of several books, including the bestselling Lucifer's Legacy. His other books include Antimatter, Neutrino, The Cosmic Onion, Apocalypse When?, Too Hot to Handle and The Particle Odyssey. FRANK CLOSE is professor of theoretical physics at Oxford University, dean of Graduate Studies and fellow of Exeter College, Oxford. He has been fellow of the Institute of Physics since 1991, and was awarded the Institute's Kelvin Medal for his contributions to the Public Understanding of Physics. He was formerly the head of the Theoretical Physics Division at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, and head of communications and public education at CERN. He is the author of several books, including the bestselling Lucifer's Legacy. His other books include Antimatter, Neutrino, The Cosmic Onion, Apocalypse When?, Too Hot to Handle and The Particle Odyssey.

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NaslovThe Infinity Puzzle: How the Hunt to Understand the Universe Led to Extraordinary Science, High Politics, and the Large Hadron Collider
AvtorjiF. E. Close, Professor Frank Close
ZaložnikKnopf Canada, 2011
ISBN0307399818, 9780307399816
Dolžina448 strani
  
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