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Too Hot to Handle: Story of the Race for Cold Fusion

Science & Math

Frank Close

History & Philosophy

Penguin??Books

Elusive

Elusive: How Peter Higgs Solved the Mystery of Mass

Physics

Penguin Books, Ltd.

We are living in a Golden Age of Physics. Forty or so years ago, three brilliant, yet little-known scientists - an American, a Dutchman, and an Englishman - made breakthroughs which later inspired the construction of the Large Hadron Collider at CERN in Geneva: a 27 kilometer-long machine which has already costs ten billion dollars, taken twenty years to build, and now promises to reveal how the universe itself came to be. The Infinity Puzzle is the inside story of those forty years of research, breakthrough, and endeavour. Peter Higgs, Gerard 't Hooft and James Bjorken, were the three scientists whose work is explored here, played out across the decades against a backdrop of high politics, low behaviour, and billion dollar budgets. Written from within by Frank Close, the eminent physicist and award-winning writer, The Infinity Puzzle also draws upons the author's close friendships with those involved.

The Infinity Puzzle: How the Quest to Understand Quantum Field Theory Led to Extraordinary Science, High Politics, and the World's Most Expensive Experiment

Oxford University Press

The Infinity Puzzle: The personalities, politics, and extraordinary science behind the Higgs boson

<p>On 4 July 2012, the announcement came that one of the longest-running mysteries in physics had finally been the Higgs boson, the missing piece in understanding why particles have mass. On the rostrum, surrounded by jostling physicists and media, was the particle's retiring namesake - the only person in history to have an existing single particle named for them.Drawing on years of conversations with Higgs and others, Close explores how Higgs became one of the world's most important scientists. Close shows that scientific competition between people, institutions and states played as much of a role in making Higgs famous as Higgs's work itself. The Mystery of Mass is a revelatory study of both a scientist and his era, which challenges and transforms our understanding of modern physics.</p>

Allen Lane.

Lucifer's Legacy: The Meaning of Asymmetry

Lucifer's Legacy

Dover Publications, Incorporated

This short, smart audiobook tells you everything you need to know about "nothing." What remains when you take all the matter away? Can empty space - "nothing" - exist? To answer these questions, eminent scientist Frank Close takes us on a lively and accessible journey that ranges from ancient ideas and cultural superstitions to the frontiers of current research, illuminating the story of how scientists have explored the void and the rich discoveries they have made there. Listeners will find an enlightening history of the vacuum: how the efforts to make a better vacuum led to the discovery of the electron; the ideas of Newton, Mach, and Einstein on the nature of space and time; the mysterious aether and how Einstein did away with it; and the latest ideas that the vacuum is filled with the Higgs field. The story ranges from the absolute zero of temperature and the seething vacuum of virtual particles and anti-particles that fills space, to the extreme heat and energy of the early universe.

Nothing (Very Short Introductions)

Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy

Audible Studios on Brilliance Audio

Basic Books

Das Nichts verstehen: Die Suche nach dem Vakuum und die Entwicklung der Quantenphysik (German Edition)

Ein Buch über das Nichts, kurz und knapp, von den Griechen bis zur modernen Kosmologie. Was ist das Nichts? Was bleibt übrig, wenn man alle Materie wegnimmt? Kann es einen wirklich leeren Raum geben – oder ist Nichts unmöglich? Dieses kleine Buch erkundet die Wissenschaft und die Geschichte der schwer fassbaren „Leere" – von Aristoteles, der darauf bestand, dass ein Vakuum nicht möglich sei, über die Theorien Newtons und Einsteins bis zu den spannenden Entdeckungen der jüngsten Vergangenheit, die uns Außergewöhnliches über den Kosmos verraten. Der angesehene britische Physiker Frank Close erzählt die Geschichte der Forscher, die sich auf die Suche nach dem Vakuum begeben haben, und ihrer oft kontroversen Befunde. Sein Bericht führt uns von den Ideen der Antike und manchem kulturell geprägten Aberglauben zur vordersten Front der Astrophysik und Kosmologie. Wir erfahren, wie die Wissenschaftler herausfanden, dass das Vakuum von Feldern erfüllt ist, wie sich Newton, Mach und Einstein mit der Natur von Raum und Zeit auseinandersetzten und wie der mysteriöse „Äther", der einstmals den leeren Raum erfüllen sollte, heute in der Erforschung des „Higgs-Feldes" ein Comeback zu feiern scheint. Das Vakuum – so viel wissen wir inzwischen – ist alles Andere als „Nichts": Es wimmelt dort von virtuellen Teilchen und Antiteilchen, die spontan und abrupt reale Gestalt annehmen, und es scheint versteckte Dimensionen zu umfassen, von denen wir bisher nichts ahnten. Diese neuen Entdeckungen können uns womöglich Antworten auf eine der grundlegenden Fragen der Kosmologie geben: Was befindet sich außerhalb des Universums? Und wie konnte das Universum überhaupt entstehen, wenn es davor nichts gab?

Spektrum Akademischer Verlag

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