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PUBLISHED
[United States] : HarperCollins Publishers, 2012
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DESCRIPTION
1 online resource
ISBN/ISSN
9780062245311 MWT15396251, 0062245317 15396251
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
On July 4, 2012, physicists at the Large Hadron Collider in Geneva made history when they discovered an entirely new type of subatomic particle that many scientists believe is the Higgs boson. For forty years, physicists searched for this capstone to the Standard Model of particle physics-the theory that describes both the most elementary components that are known in matter and the forces through which they interact. This particle points to the Higgs field, which provides the key to understanding why elementary particles have mass. In Higgs Discovery, Lisa Randall explains the science behind this monumental discovery, its exhilarating implications, and the power of empty space
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