The Infinity Puzzle. How the quest to understand quantum field theory led to extraordinary science, high politics, and the world's most expensive experiment

Close, Frank

ISBN 10: 0199593507 / ISBN 13: 9780199593507

Published by New York : Oxford University Press Inc., 2011

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Infinity Puzzle. How the quest to understand quantum field theory led to extraordinary science, high politics, and the world's most expensive experiment
• Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press Inc.
• Publication Date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0199593507
• ISBN 13: 9780199593507
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author
• Seller catalogs:
  • Science

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Synopsis

We are living in a Golden Age of Physics. Forty or so years ago, three brilliant, yet little-known scientists - an American, a Dutchman, and an Englishman - made breakthroughs which later inspired the construction of the Large Hadron Collider at CERN in Geneva: a 27 kilometer-long machine which has already costs ten billion dollars, taken twenty years to build, and now promises to reveal how the universe itself came to be. The Infinity Puzzle is the inside story of those forty years of research, breakthrough, and endeavour. Peter Higgs, Gerard 't Hooft and James Bjorken, were the three scientists whose work is explored here, played out across the decades against a backdrop of high politics, low behaviour, and billion dollar budgets. Written from within by Frank Close, the eminent physicist and award-winning writer, The Infinity Puzzle also draws upons the author's close friendships with those involved.

About the Author

Frank Close is a Professor of Theoretical Physics at Oxford University and Fellow and Tutor in Physics at Exeter College, Oxford. He is the winner of the Kelvin Medal for the public understanding of physics and the author of ten books. He lives in Abingdon, England.