Dick Teresi, Leon Lederman: The God Particle: If the Universe Is the Answer, What Is the Question?

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The God Particle: If the Universe Is the Answer, What Is the Question?

In this extraordinarily accessible and enormously witty book, the Nobel Prize-winning physicist Leon Lederman guides us on a fascinating tour of the history of particle physics. The book 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,... (read more)

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christophe j said:

“As with most physics books we get a history lesson of the long road of discoveries that has led up to our current point in research, in this case the higgs boson. The history section is probably one of the best written in physics books but unfortunately that's not why I had read the book. The section that actually concerns the title of the book is actually pretty small. The second part of the book is more concerned with the authors history with Fermi lab, interesting anecdotes and some friendships with other physicists. The God particle subject is very elusive in this book, as it is in the real world.”

posted Sunday, August 24 2008

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