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Massive : The Missing Particle That Sparked the Greatest Hunt in Science, Paperback / softback Book

Massive : The Missing Particle That Sparked the Greatest Hunt in Science Paperback / softback

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In Massive, prize-winning science journalist Ian Sample tells the story of the race to locate the Higgs Boson, the elusive particle whose existence remains to be proven.

Since 1964, when Peter Higgs described an over-arching theory of mass that depended on the Higgs boson, the scientific community has been possessed by the increasingly competitive race to prove its existence.

The ensuing four-decade quest has cost billions of dollars and consumed the attention of scientific luminaries and of politicians eager to ensure that their home country would be the one to get credit for discovering the long-sought-after particle.

Now, with the Large Hadron Collider up and running, the discovery of the Higgs boson seems finally to be within our grasp.

Sample's Massive provides the juicy backstory to what will possibly be the defining discovery of modern physics, complete with intense rivalries, clashing egos, and grand ambition.

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