Quantum Field Theory and the Hunt for an Orderly Universe
by Frank Close
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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 ...
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K Ken Nakamura
“I just finished this book yesterday. It is an absolutely great book. "The Infinity Puzzle" by @closefrank used to be my favorite popular science book (as opposed to textbook); Now Elusive is added to the list. I have already recommended to my friends from graduate school.”
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