Full name: Massive: The Missing Particle That Sparked the Greatest Hunt in Science

Author: Ian Sample Year: 2010 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Science, Non Fiction, History Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780465019472 9780465058730 0465019471 0465058736

The biggest science story of our time, Massive spans four decades, weaving together the personal narratives and international rivalries behind the search for the "God" particle, or Higgs boson. A story of grand ambition, intense competition, clashing egos, and occasionally spectacular failures, Massive is the first book that reveals the science, culture, and politics behind the biggest unanswered question in modern physics--what gives things mass? Drawing upon his unprecedented access to Peter Higgs, after whom the particle is named, award-winning science writer Ian Sample chronicles the multinational and multibillion-dollar quest to solve the mystery of mass. For scientists, to find the God particle is to finally understand the origin of mass, and until now, the story of their search has never been told. Similar books: The God Particle by Leon Lederman 50 Physics Ideas You Really Need to Know by Joanne Baker Fear of Physics by Lawrence M. Krauss How To Teach Physics To Your Dog by Chad Orzel The Particle at the End of the Universe by Sean Carroll Reality Is Not What It Seems by Carlo Rovelli Antimatter by Frank Close Particle Physics by Frank Close Physics for Future Presidents by Richard A. Muller Entanglement by Amir D. Aczel The Theory of Almost Everything by Robert Oerter Simply Einstein by Richard Wolfson Atom by Isaac Asimov Six Easy Pieces by Richard P. Feynman Knocking on Heaven's Door by Lisa Randall The Code Book by Simon Singh The Botany of Desire by Michael Pollan The Gene by Siddhartha Mukherjee The Sixth Extinction by Elizabeth Kolbert Cod by Mark Kurlansky