The story of the Higgs boson - the so-called 'God particle' - and the man who thought of it In the summer of 1964, a reclusive young professor at the University of Edinburgh wrote two scientific papers which have come to change our understanding of the most fundamental building blocks of matter and the nature of the universe. Peter Higgs posited the existence an almost infinitely tiny particle - today
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The story of the Higgs boson - the so-called 'God particle' - and the man who thought of it In the summer of 1964, a reclusive young professor at the University of Edinburgh wrote two scientific papers which have come to change our understanding of the most fundamental building blocks of matter and the nature of the universe. Peter Higgs posited the existence an almost infinitely tiny particle - today known as the Higgs boson - which is the key to understanding why particles have mass, and but for which atoms and molecules could not exist. For nearly 50 years afterwards, some of the largest projects in experimental physics sought to demonstrate the physical existence of the boson which Higgs had proposed. Sensationally, confirmation came in July 2012 at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN in Geneva. The following year Higgs was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics. One of the least-known giants of science, he is the only person in history to have had a single particle named for them. This revelatory book is 'not so much a biography of the man but of the boson named after him'. It brilliantly traces the course of much of twentieth-century physics from the inception of quantum field theory to the completion of the 'standard model' of particles and forces, and the pivotal role of Higgs's idea in this evolution. It also investigates the contested history of Higgs's responsibility for the breakthrough when there were others close by, and explains why the boson is named for him alone. Competition between institutions and states, Close shows, then played as much of a role in creating Higgs's fame as his work itself. Drawing on conversations with Higgs over a decade (a figure generally as elusive as his particle) this is a superb study of a scientist and his era - and of how scientific knowledge advances.
História - ostatné
História - ostatné je podkategóriou v rámci kategórie História, vojnová literatúra. Táto podkategória obsahuje knihy, ktoré sa zaoberajú rôznymi aspektmi histórie, ktoré sa nezameriavajú výlučne na vojnu. Záujemcovia môžu nájsť diela, ktoré sa venujú politickým, sociálnym, ekonomickým alebo kultúrnym aspektom rôznych historických období.
V tejto podkategórii sa nachádzajú knihy, ktoré ponúkajú pohľad na históriu z rôznych perspektív. Väčšina diel je napísaná historikmi, ktorí sa špecializujú na konkrétne obdobie alebo tému. Návštevníci tejto kategórie majú možnosť objaviť nové informácie a hlbšie porozumieť svojmu obľúbenému historickému obdobiu.
Knihy v podkategórii História - ostatné ponúkajú čitateľom pestré spektrum tém, ako napríklad rozvoj umenia, vedy a filozofie v histórii, život v konkrétnych obdobiach a obmedzenia, ktoré ovplyvňovali spoločnosť. Čitateľom sa dostáva možnosti objavovať doposiaľ nepoznané aspekty minulosti a rozširovať si svoje historické vedomosti.
Zároveň táto podkategória poskytuje aj príležitosť pre autorov, aby zdieľali svoje vlastné výskumy a interpretácie histórie. Miesto, kde sa stretnú odborníci a nadšenci a vymenia si ich názory a informácie. V každom prípade, História - ostatné je ideálnym miestom pre tých, ktorí majú záujem o hlbšie porozumenie histórie a chcú objavovať nové pohľady a témy, ktoré sú menej známe.
| Autor | Close Frank |
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| GLS | 3,89 € |
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| SLOVENSKA_POSTA | 1,99 € |
| SLOVENSKA_POSTA_NAPOSTU_DEPOTAPI | 1,99 € |
| EXPRES_KURIER | 2,99 € |
| ZASILKOVNA | 2,09 € |
