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The Quantum Frontier: The Large Hadron Collider
Don Lincoln
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Description for The Quantum Frontier: The Large Hadron Collider
Hardback. Whatever it reveals, the results arising from the Large Hadron Collider will profoundly alter our understanding of the cosmos and the atom and stimulate amateur and professional scientists for years to come. Num Pages: 192 pages, 82, 43 black & white halftones, 39 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: PHP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 162 x 17. Weight in Grams: 408.
The highest-energy particle accelerator ever built, the Large Hadron Collider runs under the border between France and Switzerland. It leapt into action on September 10, 2008, amid unprecedented global press coverage and widespread fears that its energy would create tiny black holes that could destroy the earth. By smashing together particles smaller than atoms, the LHC recreates the conditions hypothesized to have existed just moments after the big bang. Physicists expect it to aid our understanding of how the universe came into being and to show us much about the standard model of particle physics-even possibly proving the existence of ... Read more
The highest-energy particle accelerator ever built, the Large Hadron Collider runs under the border between France and Switzerland. It leapt into action on September 10, 2008, amid unprecedented global press coverage and widespread fears that its energy would create tiny black holes that could destroy the earth. By smashing together particles smaller than atoms, the LHC recreates the conditions hypothesized to have existed just moments after the big bang. Physicists expect it to aid our understanding of how the universe came into being and to show us much about the standard model of particle physics-even possibly proving the existence of ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Number of pages
192
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
Weight
407g
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
Baltimore, MD, United States
ISBN
9780801891441
SKU
V9780801891441
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99-33
About Don Lincoln
Don Lincoln is a scientist with the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory. He is the author of Understanding the Universe: From Quarks to the Cosmos.
Reviews for The Quantum Frontier: The Large Hadron Collider
[A] practical attitude is typical of The Quantum Frontier... a useful experimental companion to the many theory-oriented books on particle physics. Physics World 2010 What Lincoln does brilliantly is dispel the popular myth that the LHC was built solely to discover the Higgs boson, or 'God particle'. This is a project with a far wider reach... His fresh analogies and ... Read more