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The Particle at the End of the Universe

How the Hunt for the Higgs Boson Leads Us to the Edge of a New World

by Sean Carroll · 2012 · 352 pages

About This Book

An exploration of the scientific quest to discover the Higgs boson at the Large Hadron Collider. The book explains the fundamental importance of the particle in providing mass to others and chronicles the massive international effort at CERN.

Book Details

Published

2012

Pages

352

Language

en

ISBN

9780525953593

Awards & Recognition

Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books (2013)

Audiobook Available

10h 45m
Narrated by Jonathan Hogan

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