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On March 2, during the True/False Film Festival in Columbia MO, I saw a fascinating documentary on the discovery of the Higgs particle, Particle Fever. The Higgs particle, named after Dr. Peter Higgs, who proposed it in the mid-1960s, is felt to offer a solution as to why objects have mass. As I am

Libro potenzialmente interessante che però non riesco a considerare una vera opera divulgativa. Un libro, per essere considerato divulgativo, deve essere in grado di far comprendere un certo argomento, in questo caso la fisica delle particelle (in particolar modo argomenti che ruotano attorno al bos Leggi tutto

I can not imagine a book more poorly written than this one is, particularly on a topic in which I am interested. As a moderately normal human who on an average day can usually count on three digits of IQ, the only reason this book is so utterly chaotic is that the authors do not know how to write. E Leggi tutto

XXXXX LEARNNG ABOUT THE HIGGS BOSON AND WHAT LIES...BEYOND XXXXX "We have told you [in this book] the story of the Higgs boson [the "God" particle]. We have tried to give you an idea about why it exists, based upon what we've learned about the nature of mass in the [twentieth] century. We've seen h

There is a lot of content related to the proposed upgrades to the Large Hadron Collider which are fascinating, but I didn't see any discussion about how they plan on finding enough Liquid Helium to cool the superconducting steering and focusing magnets that will need to be used in the much larger co Leggi tutto

Good introduction on the development of subatomic physics, its standard model, 4 forces, and the Higgs Boson. However at some parts the readers may need some basic physics knowledge to be able to grasp the idea. The book offers some answers, as well as another new ultimate question(s), like the follo Leggi tutto

Un buon libro di divulgazione scientifica, spiega molto bene come si arriva alla scoperta e alla necessità dell'esistenza del bosone di higgs. Tuttavia ha alcuni difetti, per esempio fa un po' ridere che l'autore continui a riferirsi agli USA, continuando a porre attenzioni sul fermilab e altri prog Leggi tutto

I don't doubt this deserves more stars but chunks of this book were beyond me. Still I came away with a much better understanding of some of the interactions of subatomic particles than I had before. Some of the value of this is to realize that the question of what gives particles mass is a question Leggi tutto

I was really looking forward to this - the potential of human achievement and all that. It started off great, being half science textbook, half history book, and half manifesto. However, it quickly becomes a slog. The science behind the Standard Model is dense, and despite his best efforts, the auth Leggi tutto

Mimo swojej bardzo interesującej treści, w dużej części ta książka wymagała ode mnie takiego poziomu skupienia, jakiego nie byłem jej w stanie zaoferować. W rezultacie spore fragmenty stały się dla mnie ulotne.