The particle at the end of the universe : how the hunt for the Higgs boson leads us to the edge of a new world

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  • Author: Carroll, Sean M.
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    OneClick Digital (Firm)

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    Recorded Books, LLC.

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    Hogan, Jonathan

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    Caltech physicist and author Sean Carroll offers listeners this 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. 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.

    Genre: Science
    Original Publisher: Prince Frederick, MD , [Prince Frederick, Md.] , Recorded Books , [Distributed by] OneClick Digital
    Language(s): English
    ISBN:

    9781470342746

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OneClick Digital (Firm)

Recorded Books, LLC.

Hogan, Jonathan

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Caltech physicist and author Sean Carroll offers listeners this 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. 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.

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Science
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Prince Frederick, MD

[Prince Frederick, Md.]

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[Distributed by] OneClick Digital

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