Higgs Discovery: The Power of Empty Space

by Lisa Randall

Book Overview

On July 4, 2012, physicists at the Large Hadron Collider in Geneva madehistory when they discovered an entirely new type of subatomic particle that many scientists believe is the Higgs boson. For forty years, physicists searched for this capstone to the Standard Model of particle physics--the theory that describes both the most elementary components that are known in matter and the forces through which they interact. This particle points to the Higgs...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0062300474
• ISBN13: 9780062300478
• Release Date: September 2013
• Publisher: Ecco Press
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 0.24 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.4" x 8.0"