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Massive, April 2012
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The Missing Particle That Sparked the Greatest Hunt in Science
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April 2012
On Sale: April 3, 2012
288 pages ISBN: 0465028527 EAN: 9780465028528 Kindle: B00462RV3W Paperback / e-Book
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Non-Fiction
In Massive, prize-winning science journalist Ian
Sample tells the story of the race to locate the Higgs
Boson, the elusive particle whose existence remains to be
proven. Since 1964, when Peter Higgs described an
over-arching theory of mass that depended on the Higgs
boson, the scientific community has been possessed by the
increasingly competitive race to prove its existence. The
ensuing four-decade quest has cost billions of dollars and
consumed the attention of scientific luminaries and of
politicians eager to ensure that their home country would be
the one to get credit for discovering the long-sought-after
particle. Now, with the Large Hadron Collider up and
running, the discovery of the Higgs boson seems finally to
be within our grasp. Sample’s Massive provides the
juicy backstory to what will possibly be the defining
discovery of modern physics, complete with intense
rivalries, clashing egos, and grand ambition.
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