The Particle at the End of the Univer..., Sean Carroll
The Particle at the End of the Univer..., Sean Carroll
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The Particle at the End of the Universe
How the Hunt for the Higgs Boson Leads Us to the Edge of a New World

Author: Sean Carroll

Narrator: Jonathan Hogan

Unabridged: 10 hr 45 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 12/28/2012

Categories: Nonfiction, Science, Physics

Synopsis

Caltech physicist and acclaimed author Sean Carroll offers listeners this eye-opening profile of the Large Hadron Collider and the search for the mysterious Higgs boson particle, the subatomic building block that imbues elementary particles with mass. Here Carroll chronicles how such a complex project got off the ground in the first place and explains why this discovery is so important, and what it means for the future of physics.

About Sean Carroll

Sean Carroll, Ph.D., is a theoretical physicist at the California Institute of Technology. After receiving his doctorate from Harvard University, he pursued his research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the Institute for Theoretical Physics in Santa Barbara, and the University of Chicago. He has published papers on dark matter and dark energy, the physics of extra dimensions, and alternative theories of gravity as well as the graduate-level textbook Spacetime and Geometry. Sean is one of the founders of the group blog cosmicvariance.com, named one of the five top science blogs by Nature.

Reviews

Goodreads review by brian

Poets say science takes away from the beauty of the stars — mere globs of gas atoms. Nothing is "mere". I too can see the stars on a desert night, and feel them. But do I see less or more? The vastness of the heavens stretches my imagination — stuck on this carousel my little eye can catch one-milli......more

Goodreads review by David

Sean Carroll is a theoretical physicist, and he has written an engaging book about the history of the search for the Higgs boson. This is a fundamental particle that cannot be observed directly, but can only be surmised by indirect evidence in a high-energy accelerator. Its existence was proved by t......more

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