Carroll Sean. The Particle at the End of the Universe: How the Hunt for the Higgs Boson Leads Us to the Edge of a New World

Penguin Group (USA) Inc., Sean Carroll, 2013. — 543 p. — ISBN 9780142180303.Частица на краю Вселенной: как охота за бозоном Хиггса приводит нас к краю нового мираParticle physics is a curious activity. Thousands of people spend billions of dollars building giant machines miles across, whipping around subatomic particles at close to the speed of light and crashing them together, all to discover and study other subatomic particles that have essentially no impact on the daily lives of anyone who is not a particle physicist.
Физика элементарных частиц — любопытное занятиеThe point
Next to godliness
Atoms and particles
The accelerator story
The largest machine ever built
Wisdom through smashing
Particles in the waves
Through a broken mirror
Bringing down the house
Spreading the word
Nobel dreams
Beyond this horizon
Making it worth defendingAppendixes
Mass and spin
Standard model particles
Particles and their interactions
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