The Infinity Puzzle: How the Quest to Understand Quantum Field Theory Led to Extraordinary Science, High Politics, and the World's Most Expensive Experiment
of Frank Close
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40 or so years ago, three physicists made the spectacular breakthroughs that led to the world's largest experiment, the CERN Large Hadron Collider. Played out against a backdrop of high politics, low behaviour, and billion dollar budgets, this is the story of their work and its implications.
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- Format Hardcover
- Pages 399 pages
- Publisher Oxford University Press, USA
- Publication Date November 1st 2011
- First Publication 10/27/11
- Language English
- ISBN 9780199593507
- Edition Not informed
- Category Science & Technology
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