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What Lincoln does brilliantly is dispel the popular myth that the LHC was built solely to discover the Higgs boson, or 'God particle'. This is a project with a far wider reach... His fresh analogies and insights make this book very readable.
The book is written in a very readable and entertaining style, and I can warmly recommend it to anyone with more than a passing interest in science.
A Fermilab scientist conveys the excitement surrounding the LHC.
This small book conveys the excitement and the importance of science's biggest ever experiment.
I deeply enjoyed Lincoln’s very accessible discussions of antimatter and Cerenkov radiation. And the in-depth explanations of what the different calorimeters and solenoids do inside the LHC’s vast underground accelerator are fascinating.
It is to the author’s credit that he succeeds in explaining all the major ideas at a level that should be comprehensible to a very wide readership, using little or no mathematicallanguage... The style of writing is extremely pleasant, and any reader who has an interest in particle physics, including those without any previous knowledge of the subject, should find this material accessible and interesting.
The Quantum Frontier... prepares readers with what they can anticipate when the LHC becomes operational.
Should be in every physics library: it offers an exciting assessment of the Large Haldron Collider, which runs between France and Switzerland, and surveys just why its opening is so significant. You needn't be a physicist to appreciate its importance, and the clear explorations in layman's terms imparts excitement. Perfect for any general lending library strong in science.
Don Lincoln's playful, energetic style took me from the fundamentals of contemporary physics through to the extremely complex and sophisticated guts of the LHC experiments, touching on everything from the Earth's 'inevitable' destruction by black holes to speculated future physics experiements in a post-LHC era. Cracking it open for the first time, I was worried that a book taking under 200 pages to cover such an ambitious topic would be riddled with sterile facts listed on after the other. But the contrary is what I found.
[A] practical attitude is typical of The Quantum Frontier... a useful experimental companion to the many theory-oriented books on particle physics.
Lincoln (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory) uses a relaxed style to lead (and draw) the reader slowly into the complex subject matter. The text is supported by many helpful tables and figures that summarize and/or explain their topics well.
This engaging story will be appreciated by readers interested in the frontiers of science.
Don Lincoln's book should be in the hands of everyone interested in physics—even if only vaguely. It conveys the excitement particle physicists feel—and everyone else should feel—about the start of the Large Hadron Collider.
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Available
Trim Size
6
x 9
Pages
192
ISBN
9780801891441
Illustration Description
43 halftones, 39 line drawings
Table of Contents
Foreword, by Leon Lederman
Acknowledgments
Prologue
1. What We Know: The Standard Model
2. What We Guess: Theories We Want to Test
3. How We Do It: The Large Hadron Collider
4. How We See It: The Enormous
Foreword, by Leon Lederman
Acknowledgments
Prologue
1. What We Know: The Standard Model
2. What We Guess: Theories We Want to Test
3. How We Do It: The Large Hadron Collider
4. How We See It: The Enormous Detectors
5. Where We're Going: The Big Picture, the Universe, and the Future
Epilogue
Suggested Reading
Index
Featured Contributor
Don Lincoln, Ph.D.
Don Lincoln is a senior scientist at Fermilab. He is the author of The Quantum Frontier: The Large Hadron Collider and The Large Hadron Collider: The Extraordinary Story of the Higgs Boson and Other Stuff That Will Blow Your Mind.Resources
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