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Bezig met laden... Present at the Creation: The Story of CERN and the Large Hadron Colliderdoor Amir D. Aczel
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. This was published in 2010, which was early days in the lifetime of the LHC and well before the detection of the Higgs boson, so it's more than a little dated. That's not my problem with it, though. My problem with it is that what the title promises and what the book delivers are very different things. I was hoping for, well, the story of CERN and the Large Hadron Collider, with lots of information about their history and operations and such, but there's surprisingly little of that here, and what there is is a bit disorganized and not especially deep. The vast majority of the book is about the physics itself, which is presented in about as much detail as it's possible to have without mathematical equations (or, in other words, enough to overwhelm your brain, but not enough to actually understand the subject). Of course, the physics is kind of the whole point of the LHC, so some discussion of it is pretty much mandatory, but if I'd wanted to just read an intro to particle physics book, I would have bought an intro to particle physics book. The glimpses it does give us of the LHC are impressive, though. That is one hell of a scientific instrument. Decent introduction to CERN, with a brief history and summary of particle physics added on. I would have liked to have heard more about the LHC itself, but it hasn't been in operation for too long. So that much can be excused. Also a bit over simplified, and I had some doubts with some of the figures mentioned. Still a worthy read for the layperson, though. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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HTML: "A fascinating discussion of research at the cutting-edge of physics." . HTML:The Large Hadron Collider is the biggest, and by far the most powerful, machine ever built. A project of CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, its audacious purpose is to re-create, in a 16.5-mile-long circular tunnel under the French-Swiss countryside, the immensely hot and dense conditions that existed some 13.7 billion years ago within the first trillionth of a second after the fiery birth of our universe. The collider is now crashing protons at record energy levels never created by scientists before, and it will reach even higher levels by 2013. Its superconducting magnets guide two beams of protons in opposite directions around the track. After accelerating the beams to 99.9999991 percent of the speed of light, it collides the protons head-on, annihilating them in a flash of energy sufficient--in accordance with Einstein's elegant statement of mass-energy equivalence, E=mc2--to coalesce into a shower of particles and phenomena that have not existed since the first moments of creation. Within the LHC's detectors, scientists hope to see empirical confirmation of key theories in physics and cosmology. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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I liked the sub-atomic, historic interludes, and the subject (the book was, occasionally, about CERN) but a magazine article of that length . . . really tires. ( )