Introducing Particle Physics: A Graphic Guide - Softcover

Whyntie, Tom

 
9781848315891: Introducing Particle Physics: A Graphic Guide
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1848315899 ISBN 13: 9781848315891
Verlag: Icon Books Ltd, 2014

Inhaltsangabe

What really happens at the most fundamental levels of nature?Introducing Particle Physics explores the very frontiers of our knowledge, even showing how particle physicists are now using theory and experiment to probe our very concept of what is real.From the earliest history of the atomic theory through to supersymmetry, micro-black holes, dark matter, the Higgs boson, and the possibly mythical graviton, practising physicist and CERN contributor Tom Whyntie gives us a mind-expanding tour of cutting-edge science.Featuring brilliant illustrations from Oliver Pugh, Introducing Particle Physics is a unique tour through the most astonishing and challenging science being undertaken today.

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Tom Whyntie: Tom Whyntie has a degree in Natural Sciences from Cambridge, and a Phd from Imperial. He is the STFC-funded Researcher in Residence for the LUCID UK project, working with on the CERN@school project. He has worked at CERN on the Compact Mass Solenoid experiment at the Large Hadron Collider.
Oliver Pugh: Oliver Pugh is a designer and illustrator.


Tom Whyntie is currently based at CERN working on the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) experiment, a 12,500 tonne, cathedral-sized 'digital camera' one hundred metres under the ground. Tom has received awards from the Institute of Physics for his lecturing, performing in locations as varied as Cambridge, London, Portsmouth, Dublin, Enfield and Romania and has written for the Guardian. Oliver Pugh's most recent book was Introducing Infinity.

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Verlag
Icon Books Ltd
Erscheinungsdatum
2014
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1848315899
ISBN 13 
9781848315891
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Taschenbuch
Zeichner
Pugh Oliver
Anzahl der Seiten
176
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