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"What Stephen Hawking did for cosmology, Leon Lederman does for particle physics" (Dallas Morning News) in The God Particle, a funny and fascinating look at the universe from the Nobel Prize–winning physicist.
In this extraordinarily accessible and enormously witty book, the Nobel Prize–winning physicist Leon Lederman guides us on a…
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Not everyone is cut out to win a Nobel Prize for Physics. The math required sets me on the sidelines. But Dr. Lederman doesn't let my mathlexia hinder my understanding of humanity's search to discover What Matters. Or, more precisely, What Is Matter?
Using a variety of narrative approaches, the reader experiences major scientific advancements throughout history that have led us to our current understanding of what the universe is made of... and through it all, Lederman's legendary sense of humor shines through. I often recommend this book. It's not something to be read through in a single sitting. Rather,…
This book was written to promote the Superconducting Super Collider in the US (that soon after got cancelled by the congress) with a lot of humour. Unlike some popular science books, it doesn’t include any wrong or exaggerated statements about modern science. It tells the story of the search for the "atoms," now called elementary particles, which are the building blocks of the Universe, from ancient Greece to modern times.
Among others, the book describes the then-missing last two particles of the Standard Model, the top quark and the "God" particle — the Higgs boson — and the laboratories (Fermilab…
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