CARROLL, Sean.
The Particle at the End of the Universe.
New York: Dutton, 2012.
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First Edition of Sean Carroll's The Particle at the End of the Universe; Inscribed by Him
First edition of physicist acclaimed account of the decades-long hunt for the Higgs boson and its discovery at CERN's Large Hadron Collider. Octavo, original boards, illustrated with diagrams, photographs, and illustrations. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "To Christophe - Enjoy the particles! Sean Carroll." Laid in is the printed program for the Eleventh Annual Paul D. Bartlett, Sr. Lecture at the Linda Hall Library of Science, Engineering and Technology in Kansas City, at which Carroll delivered a lecture of the same title as this book on April 16, 2013. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
The Particle at the End of the Universe (2012) is theoretical physicist Sean Carroll's account of the search for the Higgs boson, the elusive particle whose existence was confirmed at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN in July 2012. A Caltech physicist and celebrated science communicator, Carroll traces the decades of theory and the vast international experimental effort that culminated in the discovery, explaining why the Higgs field matters to our understanding of mass and the fundamental workings of the universe. The book won the Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books in 2013 and was widely praised for making one of the most abstract achievements of modern physics vivid and accessible to general readers.
The Particle at the End of the Universe.
$650.00
In Stock