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9780199679577

Higgs The invention and discovery of the 'God Particle'

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    9780199679577

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    0199679576

  • Edition: Reprint
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2013-08-24
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Author Biography


Jim Baggott is a freelance science writer. He was a lecturer in chemistry at the University of Reading but left to pursue a business career, where he first worked with Shell International Petroleum Company and then as an independent business consultant and trainer. His many books include Atomic: The First War of Physics (Icon, 2009), Beyond Measure: Modern Physics, Philosophy and the Meaning of Quantum Theory (OUP, 2003), A Beginner's Guide to Reality (Penguin, 2005), and A Quantum Story: A History in 40 Moments (OUP, 2010).

Table of Contents


Preface
Prologue: Form and substance
1. Invention
1. The poetry of logical ideas
2. Not a sufficient excuse
3. People will be very stupid about it
4. Applying the right ideas to the wrong problem
5. I can do that
2. Discovery
6. Alternating neutral currents
7. They must be Ws
8. Throw deep
9. A fantastic moment
10. The Shakespeare question
Epilogue: The construction of mass
Endnotes
Glossary
Bibliography
Index

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