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  Massive: The Missing Particle That Sparked the Greatest Hunt in Science (Hardback) By (author) Ian Sample

  

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  Short Description for MassiveA prize-winning science writers history of the forty-year search for the Higgs boson, and the intense rivalries, clashing egos, and grand ambition that led to a world-changing discovery
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  • Publisher: BASIC BOOKS
  • Published: 18 November 2010
  • Format: Hardback 272 pages
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  • Categories: History Of Science | Popular Science | Nuclear Structure Physics | Particle & High-energy Physics
  • ISBN 13: 9780465019472 ISBN 10: 0465019471
  • Sales rank: 277,905

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• The biggest science story of our time, Massive spans four decades, weaving together the personal narratives and international rivalries behind the search for the God" particle, or Higgs boson. A story of grand ambition, intense competition, clashing egos, and occasionally spectacular failures, Massive is the first book that reveals the science, culture, and politics behind the biggest unanswered question in modern physicswhat gives things mass? Drawing upon his unprecedented access to Peter Higgs, after whom the particle is named, award-winning science writer Ian Sample chronicles the multinational and multibillion-dollar quest to solve the mystery of mass. For scientists, to find the God particle is to finally understand the origin of mass, and until now, the story of their search has never been told.