The Large Hadron Collider Unraveling the Mysteries of the Universe /

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Beech, Martin (Συγγραφέας)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2010.
• Θέματα: Physics.; Quantum physics.; Astronomy.; Astrophysics.; Cosmology.; Particle acceleration.; Popular works.; Quantum Physics.; Particle Acceleration and Detection, Beam Physics.; Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology.; Popular Science, general.

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is the largest engineering project ever undertaken, and one of the most expensive. Why are physicists around the world so excited about it? What secrets of the universe does this gargantuan piece of machinery hope to reveal? What risks are there in operating it? Could...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• The Story of Matter
• The World’s Most Complicated Machine
• The Standard Model, the Higgs, and Beyond
• The Big Bang and the First 380,000 Years
• Dark Matters
• Dark Energy and an Accelerating Universe
• The Waiting Game.