Particle Physics, Frank Close
Particle Physics, Frank Close
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Particle Physics
A Very Short Introduction

Author: Frank Close

Narrator: Mike Cooper

Unabridged: 4 hr 1 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 07/09/2024

Includes: Bonus Material Bonus Material Included

Synopsis

Following the discovery of the Higgs boson, Frank Close has produced this major revision to his classic and compelling introduction to the fundamental particles that make up the universe. Frank Close takes us on a journey into the atom to examine known particles such as quarks, electrons, and the ghostly neutrino, and explains the key role and significance of the Higgs boson. Along the way he provides fascinating insights into how discoveries in particle physics have actually been made, and discusses how our picture of the world has been radically revised in the light of these developments. He concludes by looking ahead to new ideas about the mystery of antimatter and massive neutrinos, and to what the next fifty years of research might reveal about the nature of the Higgs field which molds the fundamental particles and forces.

About Frank Close

Frank Close is an eminent research theoretical physicist in nuclear and particle physics. Currently Emeritus Professor of Physics at Oxford University and a Fellow of Exeter College, he was formerly the Head of the Theoretical Physics Division at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory. He served as Chair of the UK Space Exploration Working Group 2007 which culminated with Tim Peake's launch to the ISS. He is the author of several books, including the bestselling Lucifer's Legacy (2000), and his highly acclaimed biography of the Higgs Boson Elusive (2022). His other books include Antimatter (2018), Neutrino (2011), Eclipse: Journeys to the Dark Side of the Moon (2017), and A Very Short Introduction to Nuclear Physics (2015), Particle Physics (2004), and Nothing (2009). In 2013, Professor Close was awarded the Royal Society Michael Faraday Prize for communicating science and was elected Fellow of the Royal Society in 2021.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Aaron on May 17, 2009

There is some special sense of futility tied to the task of presenting physics without math. It's like parents trying to explain their impending divorce to their eight-year-old daughter. Bereft of any sort of background knowledge that would allow her to actually understand that reasons for what is h......more

Goodreads review by James on April 18, 2017

Good, but not as good as his other VSI book, Nothing, but a great read nevertheless. You´d be amazed how empty things are on the atomic and subatomic levels - far emptier than space, relatively speaking. This book is filled with plenty of great nuggety details like this - Close explaining the size o......more

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