The Infinity Puzzle
The Personalities, Politics, and Extraordinary Science Behind the Higgs Boson
(Sprache: Englisch)
Forty years ago, three physicists - Peter Higgs, Gerard 't Hooft, and James Bjorken - made the spectacular breakthroughs that led to the world's largest experiment, CERN's Large Hadron Collider. Against a backdrop of high politics and billion dollar...
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Forty years ago, three physicists - Peter Higgs, Gerard 't Hooft, and James Bjorken - made the spectacular breakthroughs that led to the world's largest experiment, CERN's Large Hadron Collider. Against a backdrop of high politics and billion dollar budgets, this is the story of their work, the quest for the Higgs boson, and its eventual discovery.
Inhaltsverzeichnis zu „The Infinity Puzzle “
Prologue: Amsterdam 1971; GENESIS; 1 The Point of Infinity; 2 Shelter Island and QED; 3 Feynman, Schwinger...and Tomonaga (and Dyson); Intermission 1950; 4 Abdus Salam - A Strong Beginning; 5 Yang-Mills...and Shaw; 6 The Identity of John Ward; 7 The Marriage of Weak and Electromagnetic Forces - to 1964; Intermission 1960; 8 Broken Symmetries; 9 The Boson That Has Been Named After Me, aka the Higgs Boson; Intermission mid 1960s; 10 1967 - from Kibble to Salam and Weinberg; 11 And Now I Introduce Mr 't Hooft; Intermission early 1970s; REVELATION; 12 BJ and the Cosmic Quarks; 13 A Comedy of Errors; Intermission 1975; 14 Heavy Light; 15 Warmly Admired Richly Deserved; 16 The Big Machine; Intermission the end of the 20th century; 17 To Infinity and Beyond; Postscript; Epilogue: Bonfire of the Infinities; Bibliography; Acronyms for Notes; Notes; Index
Autoren-Porträt von Frank Close
Frank Close is Professor of Theoretical Physics at Oxford University and former head of the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory. During his career he has worked closely with CERN, home of the LHC. He is a well-established science writer, and his recent short books for The Void and Antimatter - have been highly successful.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Frank Close
- 432 Seiten, 8 Schwarz-Weiß-Abbildungen, Maße: 15,4 x 23,2 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- ISBN-10: 0199673306
- ISBN-13: 9780199673308
- Erscheinungsdatum: 28.03.2013
Sprache:
Englisch
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