The Particle at the End of the Universe: How the Hunt for the Higgs Boson Leads Us to the Edge of a New World

by Sean Carroll

Book Overview

Scientists have just announced an historic discovery on a par with the splitting of the atom: the Higgs boson, the key to understanding why mass exists has been found. In "The Particle at the End of the Universe," Caltech physicist and acclaimed writer Sean Carroll takes readers behind the scenes of the Large Hadron Collider at CERN to meet the scientists and explain this landmark event. The Higgs boson is the particle that more than six thousand...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0525953590
• ISBN13: 9780525953593
• Release Date: November 2012
• Publisher: Dutton Books
• Length: 341 Pages
• Weight: 1.33 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.2" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher