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Title: A ZEPTOSPACE ODYSSEY: A JOURNEY INTO THE PHYSICS OF THE LHC
By: Gian Francesco Giudice
Format: Hardback

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ISBN 10: 0199581916
ISBN 13: 9780199581917
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Publisher: OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Pub. date: 3 December, 2009
Pages: 288
Description: This book provides an everyman's guide for understanding and following the discoveries that will soon take place at the famous Large Hadron Collider experiments at CERN. The material is presented accurately yet accessibly, and the book is infectious in its enthusiasm for the project.
Synopsis: At this very moment the most ambitious scientific experiment of all time is beginning, and yet its precise aims are little understood by the general public. This book aims to provide an everyman's guide for understanding and following the discoveries that will take place within the next few years at the Large Hadron Collider project at CERN. The reader is invited to share an insider's view of the theory of particle physics, and is equipped to appreciate the scale of the intellectual revolution that is about to take place. The technological innovations required to build the LHC are among the most astonishing aspects of this scientific adventure, and they too are described here as part of the LHC story. The book culminates with an outline of the scientific aims and expectations at the LHC. Does the mysterious Higgs boson exist? Does space hide supersymmetry or extend into extra dimensions? How can colliding protons at the LHC unlock the secrets of the origin of our universe? These questions are all framed and then addressed by an expert in the field. While making no compromises in accuracy, this highly technical material is presented in a friendly, accessible style.The book's aim is not just to inform, but to give the reader the physicist's sense of awe and excitement, as we stand on the brink of a new era in understanding the world in which we all live.
Illustrations: 36 b/w photographs, 18 b/w line drawings
Publication: UK
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Prizes: Winner of Finalist for the Galileo Prize 2012.
Returns: Returnable
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