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Present at the Creation: The Story of CERN and the Large Hadron Collider 1st Ed
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A book in excellent condition. Cover is shiny and undamaged, and the dust jacket is included for hard covers. No missing or damaged pages, no creases or tears, and no underlining/highlighting of text or writing in the margins. May be very minimal identifying marks on the inside cover. Very minimal wear and tear.
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eBay item number:126258840412
Item specifics
- Condition
- Like New
- Seller Notes
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Product Group
- Book
- Signed
- No
- Ex Libris
- No
- Personalized
- No
- Narrative Type
- Nonfiction
- Inscribed
- No
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- United States
- Weight
- 3 lbs
- IsTextBook
- Yes
- ISBN
- 9780307591678
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Crown Publishing Group, T.H.E.
ISBN-10
0307591670
ISBN-13
9780307591678
eBay Product ID (ePID)
80519879
Product Key Features
Book Title
Present at the Creation : the Story of Cern and the Large Hadron Collider
Number of Pages
288 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2010
Topic
Power Resources / General, Physics / Nuclear
Genre
Technology & Engineering, Science
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1 in
Item Weight
17.6 Oz
Item Length
9.6 in
Item Width
6.2 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2010-014835
Dewey Edition
22
Reviews
"A fascinating discussion of research at the cutting-edge of physics."--Arthur I. Miller, author of Deciphering the Cosmic Number, "A fascinating discussion of research at the cutting-edge of physics."--Arthur I. Miller, author ofDeciphering the Cosmic Number
Dewey Decimal
539.7/36094
Synopsis
The Large Hadron Collider is the biggest, and by far the most powerful, machine ever built. A project of CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, its audacious purpose is to re-create, in a 16.5-mile-long circular tunnel under the French-Swiss countryside, the immensely hot and dense conditions that existed some 13.7 billion years ago within the first trillionth of a second after the fiery birth of our universe. The collider is now crashing protons at record energy levels never created by scientists before, and it will reach even higher levels by 2013. Its superconducting magnets guide two beams of protons in opposite directions around the track. After accelerating the beams to 99.9999991 percent of the speed of light, it collides the protons head-on, annihilating them in a flash of energy sufficient--in accordance with Einstein's elegant statement of mass-energy equivalence, E=mc2--to coalesce into a shower of particles and phenomena that have not existed since the first moments of creation. Within the LHC's detectors, scientists hope to see empirical confirmation of key theories in physics and cosmology. In telling the story of what is perhaps the most anticipated experiment in the history of science, Amir D. Aczel takes us inside the control rooms at CERN at key moments when an international team of top researchers begins to discover whether this multibillion-euro investment will fulfill its spectacular promise. Through the eyes and words of the men and women who conceived and built CERN and the LHC--and with the same clarity and depth of knowledge he demonstrated in the bestselling Fermat's Last Theorem--Aczel enriches all of us with a firm grounding in the scientific concepts we will need to appreciate the discoveries that will almost certainly spring forth when the full power of this great machine is finally unleashed. Will the Higgs boson make its breathlessly awaited appearance, confirming at last the Standard Model of particles and their interactions that is among the great theoretical achievements of twentieth-century physics? Will the hidden dimensions posited by string theory be revealed? Will we at last identify the nature of the dark matter that makes up more than 90 percent of the cosmos? With Present at the Creation, written by one of today's finest popular interpreters of basic science, we can all follow the progress of an experiment that promises to greatly satisfy the curiosity of anyone who ever concurred with Einstein when he said, "I want to know God's thoughts--the rest is details.", The author of "Ferment's Last Theorem" follows the greatest experiment of modern times, conducted by CERN, and attempts to understand--through the world's largest particle physics laboratory--the origins of the universe.
LC Classification Number
QC787.P73A29 2010
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