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1) The particle odyssey: a journey to the heart of the matter

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Close, F. E

Pub. Date

2002.

Language

English

2) Eclipse: journeys to the dark side of the moon

Author

Close, F. E

Pub. Date

2017.

Edition

First edition.

Language

English

3) The infinity puzzle: quantum field theory and the hunt for an orderly universe

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Close, F. E

Pub. Date

[2011]

Language

English

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"Speculation is rife that by 2012 the elusive Higgs boson will be found at the Large Hadron Collider. If found, the Higgs boson would help explain why everything has mass. But there's more at stake-what we're really testing is our capacity to make the universe reasonable. Our best understanding of physics is predicated on something known as quantum field theory. Unfortunately, in its raw form, it doesn't make sense-its outputs are physically impossible...

4) Elusive: how Peter Higgs solved the mystery of mass

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Close, F. E

Pub. Date

2022.

Edition

First edition.

Language

English

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"On July 4, 2012, scientists at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN gathered to make a momentous announcement: after nearly a half century of speculation and work, the Higgs boson had been found, and the mystery of mass solved. Not far offstage was the man for whom the particle had been named: Peter Higgs. The Higgs boson is an anomaly. No other basic particle of physics is named after a person. And in a point of almost supreme irony, it is named after...

5) Neutrino

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Close, F. E

Pub. Date

2010.

Language

English

6) The void

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Close, F. E

Pub. Date

2007.

Language

English

7) Half-life: the divided life of Bruno Pontecorvo, physicist or spy

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Close, F. E

Pub. Date

[2015]

Language

English

8) Lucifer's legacy: the meaning of asymmetry

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Close, F. E

Pub. Date

2000.

Language

English

9) Nothing: a very short introduction

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Close, F. E

Series

Very short introductions volume 205

Pub. Date

2009.

Language

English

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What is 'the void'? What remains when you take all the matter away? Can empty space - 'nothing' - exist? This text explores the science & history of the elusive void - from Aristotle's theories to black holes & quantum particles, & why our very latest discoveries about the vacuum can tell us extraordinary things about the cosmos.