A breathtaking journey into the building blocks of the universe by one of the world's leading scientists
Jon Butterworth is currently Head of the Department of Physics and Astronomy at UCL and works on the ATLAS Experiment at CERN's Large Hadron Collider. He studied at the University of Oxford, receiving a DPhil in particle physics in 1992. He is the author of Smashing Physics, and of the 'Life and Physics' blog for the Guardian.
A magnificent, compelling and insightful voyage to the frontier of
knowledge from a great writer with a deep understanding.
*Brian Cox*
Yearning for a late holiday? Bosonia, the Isle of Leptons and
farthest Antimatter beckon in this bracing voyage into particle
physics, captained by experimental physicist Jon Butterworth. Ever
an original writer, he maps the territory of the standard model and
beyond, elucidating in turn wave–particle duality, the quantum
field and the subatomic realm, all the way to ripples in space-time
and the hunt for the Higgs boson (which, as a veteran of the Large
Hadron Collider at Europe's physics lab CERN, he navigates
expertly). Sea legs achieved, you're ready for wilder shores, such
as the Dirac–Milne universe.
*Nature*
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