John W Moffat

Cracking the Particle Code of the Universe

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Produktbeschreibung

Among the current books that celebrate the discovery of the Higgs boson, Cracking the Quantum Code of the Universe is a rare objective treatment of the subject. The book is an insiders behind-the-scenes look at the arcane, fascinating world of theoretical and experimental particle physics leading up to the recent discovery of a new boson.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Prairie Wind Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Januar 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 163mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 535g
• ISBN-13: 9780199915521
• ISBN-10: 0199915520
• Artikelnr.: 38026339

Autorenporträt

John W. Moffat has been a professor of physics for more than three decades. He is currently Professor Emeritus at the University of Toronto, a member of the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, and adjunct professor in the physics department at the University of Waterloo. Moffat is well known for his alternative theory of gravity to Einstein's general relativity. He is the author of Reinventing Gravity: A Physicist Goes Beyond Einstein and Einstein Wrote Back: My Life in Physics .

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents
Introduction
Chapter 1: Building the Standard Model
Chapter 2: Deeper into the Standard Model
Chapter 3: Accelerators: High-Energy Tools of Physicists
Chapter 4: The Higgs Particle, Warts and All
Chapter 5: Alternatives to the Standard Model
Chapter 6: Dark Matters at the Large Hadron Collider
Chapter 7: What if the LHC Finds No New Physics?