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Would you like to know how the universe works? Scientists have been asking that question for a long time and have found that many of the answers can be found in the study of particle physics, the field that focuses on those impossibly tiny particles with unbelievably strange names - the hadrons and leptons, baryons and mesons, muons and gluons - so mystifying to the rest of us.

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.

Quantum theory is so shocking that Einstein could not bring himself to accept it. It is so important that it provides the fundamental underpinning of all modern sciences. Without it, we'd have no computers, no science of molecular biology, no understanding of DNA, no genetic engineering. In...

Physics has two spectacularly successful theories that cannot share a room. General relativity describes gravity as the curvature of a continuous spacetime, and it has passed every experimental test for a hundred years. Quantum mechanics describes matter as discrete and probabilistic, and it too has never been shown wrong. Try to combine them, and the mathematics produces nonsense: infinities that will not go away, predictions that cannot be extracted. That failure is the biggest open question in physics. This book walks you through the whole landscape of that question in plain English, ...

Harvesting chunks of the sun can be rewarding . . . if you can stay alive. Tom Savage and Gwen Wilder are running experiments never before seen in the galaxy, using a tiny piece of Phaethon’s sun. But the Ever Riders are on their trail, and still mad about losing out on Mal Dalmont’s bounty. James Ever is a spiteful, vengeful man. But Tom has several aces up his sleeve, including a surplus space Marine battle bot and a local AI. No one on Phaethon has ever dealt with someone as resourceful as Tom. No one has ever had quite this many resources to defend their homestead . . . Veteran ...

This book explains Particle Accelerators, or atom smashers, in very simple words to the layperson. There is NO mathematics, and no difficult to understand jargon. Just a simple introduction to the basic principles plus the history of evolution. You will simply LOVE this book, written by a specialist in high energy particle physics.