by Jon Butterworth · Headline · tapa blanda · ISBN 9781472210333
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«Smashing Physics» is the popular science essay by Jon Butterworth, published by Headline in paperback (352 pages, in English).
The author, a physicist at CERN, gives an insider's account of the search for the Higgs boson at the Large Hadron Collider. He explains what this particle is, how it was discovered and what it means for our understanding of the laws of nature, and describes the scientific collaboration, technological innovation and setbacks of the world's biggest experiment.
The subtitle is «Inside the World's Biggest Experiment». Published on 7 May 2015, it was shortlisted for the Royal Society Winton Prize 2015.
For popular science readers who want to understand particle physics through a first-person narrative.
