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Higgs : the invention and discovery of the 'god particle' / Jim Baggott.
- Title
- Higgs : the invention and discovery of the 'god particle' / Jim Baggott.
- Author
- Baggott, J. E.
- Publication
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2012.
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- Description
- xxi, 277 p. : ill.; 21 cm.
- Summary
- Relates the history of the search for the Higgs boson, also known as the "God" particle.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Prologue: Form and substance -- pt. 1. Invention -- The poetry of logical ideas -- Not a sufficient excuse -- People will be very stupid about it -- Applying the right ideas to the wrong problem -- I can do that -- pt. 2. Discovery -- Alternating neutral currents -- They must be Ws -- Throw deep -- A fantastic moment -- The Shakespeare question -- Epilogue: The construction of mass.
- ISBN
- 0199603499
- 9780199603497
- OCLC
- 806431281
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library