Present at the Creation

Discovering the Higgs Boson

Amir D. Aczel

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Broadway Books (A Division of Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc)
15 October 2011

Popular science; Nuclear structure physics

From the author of the bestselling Fermat's Last Theorem, the fascinating story of the greatest experiment of modern times, which seeks to understand the origins of the universe.

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is the biggest, and by far the most powerful, machine ever built. A project of CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, its audacious purpose is to re-create, in a 16.5-mile-long circular tunnel under the French-Swiss countryside, the immensely hot and dense conditions that existed some 13.7 billion years ago within the first trillionth of a second after the fiery birth of our universe.

In Present at the Creation, Amir D. Aczel takes us inside the control rooms, as an international team of researchers begins to discover whether a multibillion-euro investment will fulfill its promise- to find empirical confirmation of theories in physics and cosmology. Through the eyes and words of the men and women who conceived and built CERN and the LHC, Aczel enriches all of us with a firm grounding in the scientific concepts necessary to appreciate fully the stunning July 4, 2012 discovery of the Higgs Boson. Newly updated in the wake of the discovery, Present at the Creation tells the story of perhaps the greatest experiment in the history of science.

By: Amir D. Aczel
Imprint: Broadway Books (A Division of Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc)
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 203mm, Width: 132mm, Spine: 16mm
Weight: 241g
ISBN: 9780307591821
ISBN 10: 0307591824
Pages: 304
Publication Date: 15 October 2011
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

AMIR D. ACZEL is the author of fourteen books, including the international bestseller Fermat's Last Theorem, which has been translated into twenty-two languages. He is a fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.