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OverviewWe are living in a Golden Age of Physics. Forty or so years ago, three brilliant, yet little-known scientists - an American, a Dutchman, and an Englishman - made breakthroughs which later inspired the construction of the Large Hadron Collider at CERN in Geneva: a 27 kilometer-long machine which has already costs ten billion dollars, taken twenty years to build, and now promises to reveal how the universe itself came to be. The Infinity Puzzle is the inside story of those forty years of research, breakthrough, and endeavour. Peter Higgs, Gerard 't Hooft and James Bjorken, were the three scientists whose work is explored here, played out across the decades against a backdrop of high politics, low behaviour, and billion dollar budgets. Written from within by Frank Close, the eminent physicist and award-winning writer, The Infinity Puzzle also draws upons the author's close friendships with those involved. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Frank ClosePublisher: Oxford University Press Imprint: Oxford University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 3.80cm , Length: 23.50cm Weight: 0.766kg ISBN: 9780199593507ISBN 10: 0199593507 Pages: 288 Publication Date: 08 November 2011 Audience: College/higher education , Tertiary & Higher Education Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsACT I: GENESIS 1: The ultraviolet catastrophe 2: One in a million 3: The smile of the Cheshire Cat ACT II:THE ACT(OR)S 4: The infinity puzzle 5: Broken symmetries 6: Missed opportunities 7: Peter Higgs 8: Enter Gerard 't Hooft ACT III: REVELATIONS 9: BJ and the cosmic quarks 10: Quantum chromodynamics 11: Heavy light 12: The big machine 13: To infinity and beyondReviewsfascinating book Nature thoroughly researched and well-crafted narrative New Scientist masterpiece...I never normally give 5 stars but for this I make an exception. John Gribbin, BBC Focus If [the Higgs Boson] does turn up, some people in Stockholm will likely be among the book's most avid readers ... Close is especially diligent in investigating the priority of ideas and in crediting researchers who may have been left behind, either by the Nobel committee or by popular imagination ... The result is a much more nuanced picture of history. Physics World fascinating book Nature thoroughly researched and well-crafted narrative New Scientist masterpiece...I never normally give 5 stars but for this I make an exception. John Gribbin, BBC Focus fascinating book Nature thoroughly researched and well-crafted narrative New Scientist masterpiece...I never normally give 5 stars but for this I make an exception. John Gribben, BBC Focus Author InformationFrank Close is Professor of Theoretical Physics at Oxford University and has just retired from his position as head of the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory. During his career he has worked closely with CERN, home of the LHC. He is a well-established science writer, and his recent short books for OUP The Void and Antimatter - have been very successful. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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