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The Particle at the End of the Universe
The Particle at the End of the Universe: How the Hunt for the Higgs Boson Leads Us to the Edge of a New World | Sean Carroll
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Winner of the prestigious 2013 Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books A modern voyage of discovery. Frank Wilczek, Nobel Laureate, author of The Lightness of Being The Higgs boson is one of our eras most fascinating scientific frontiers and the key to understanding why mass exists. The most recent book on the subject, The God Particle, was a bestseller. Now, Caltech physicist Sean Carroll documents the doorway that is openingafter billions of dollars and the efforts of thousands of researchers at the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerlandinto the mind-boggling world of dark matter. The Particle at the End of the Universe has it all: money and politics, jealousy and self-sacrifice, history and cutting-edge physicsall grippingly told by a rising star of science writing.
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Maude
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I picked this up because of my new fascination with dark matter and I was not disappointed. It was a very interesting look at particle physics and a lot more accessible than I thought it would be 😌

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WhiskeyMistress
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I challenged myself with this book, as I‘m not really scientifically minded... however, I‘m so curious about physics, I really wanted to learn all I could! This book was so interesting and the author really made super complex things easier to grasp! #Higgsboson #nonfiction #physics

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speljamr
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Another selection I found used at Baldwin's Book Barn. Sean Carroll is a great author when it comes to learning about the physics of our universe.

#science #physics #astrophysics

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rockpools
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I headed to the 'things too #complicated to understand' section of the library, and found a book (that actually looks pretty readable) about the search for the Higgs-Boson particle.

In reality, though, I picked this one for Sean Carroll's not-remotely-complicated dedication.

#AugustGrrrl @Cinfhen

Cinfhen Love that dedication 🙌🏻💕and does the library actually have such a section??? 7y
rockpools @Cinfhen 😁 Yup. I think they label it Astrophysics or Quantum Physics or maybe just Physics! I want to read all the books there, but just looking at the blurbs tends to boggle my mind, and send me back to the safety of EU-Japan international relations (my work reading is thrilling right now!🤓) 7y
Cinfhen Yeah, I've never walked down those aisles before 🙄😂🙄your work read doesn't seem to light, either! 7y
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