The God particle : if the universe is the answer, what is the question?

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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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lederman, Leon M.
Other Authors: Teresi, Dick
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1993.
Subjects:
Higgs bosons.
Particles (Nuclear physics) > Philosophy.
Matter > Constitution.
Science > Philosophy.
Bosons de Higgs.
Particules (Physique nucléaire) > Philosophie.
Matière > Structure.
Sciences > Philosophie.
Atomistik
Elementarteilchenphysik.
Forschung.
Geschichte.
Hypothetisches Teilchen
Kernphysik.
Higgs-deeltjes.
Philosophie des sciences.
Particules (physique) > Philosophie.
Matière > Structure.
Bosons intermédiaires.
Matter.
Hypothetisches Teilchen.
Constitution.
Constitutions.
Table of Contents:
  • Dramatis Personae
  • 1. The Invisible Soccer Ball
  • 2. The First Particle Physicist
  • Interlude A: A Tale of Two Cities
  • 3. Looking for the Atom: The Mechanics
  • 4. Still Looking for the Atom: Chemists and Electricians
  • 5. The Naked Atom
  • Interlude B: The Dancing Moo-Shu Masters
  • 6. Accelerators: They Smash Atoms, Don't They?
  • Interlude C: How We Violated Parity in a Weekend ... and Discovered God
  • 7. A-tom!
  • 8. The God Particle at Last
  • 9. Inner Space, Outer Space, and the Time Before Time
  • A Note on History and Sources.

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