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The Large Hadron Collider

Unraveling the Mysteries of the Universe

Martin Beech (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

218 Seiten

2010
Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
978-1-4419-5667-5 (ISBN)

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It may at first seem that the world of subatomic physics is far removed from our every day lives. Isn’t it all just a waste of time and taxpayers' money? Hopefully, all who read this book will come to a different conclusion. Collider physics is all about our origins, and this aspect alone makes it worthy of our very best attention. The experiments conducted within the vast collider chambers are at the forefront of humanity’s quest to unweave the great tapestry that is the universe. Everything is connected. Within the macrocosm is the microcosm. By knowing how matter is structured, how atoms and elementary particles interact, and what forces control the interactions between the particles, we discover further clues as to why the universe is the way it is, and we uncover glimpses of how everything came into being.

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC), in the process of coming online at CERN, is the world’s largest and most complex machine. It represents the pinnacle of human ingenuity, and its physical characteristics, costs, and workings astound us at every turn.

We are literally humbled by the machine that has been produced through a grand international collaboration of scientists. This book is about what those scientists hope to discover with the LHC, for hopes do run high, and there is much at stake. Careers, reputations and prestigious science prizes will be realized, and possibly lost, in the wake of the results that the LHC will produce. And there are risks, real and imagined. The LHC will probe the very fabric of matter and it will help us understand the very weft and the weave of the universe.

Dr. Martin Beech is a full professor of astronomy at Campion College at The University of Regina in Saskatchewan, Canada. He has published many scientific research papers on stellar structure and evolution and several books on astronomy. Asteroid 12343 has been named in recognition of his research on meteors and meteorites. This is Beech’s third book for Springer. He has already published Rejuvenating the Sun and Avoiding Other Global Catastrophes (2008) and Terraforming: The Creating of Habitable Worlds (2009).

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.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	5.8.2010
Zusatzinfo	28 Illustrations, color; 129 Illustrations, black and white; XIII, 218 p. 157 illus., 28 illus. in color.
Verlagsort	New York, NY
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik
	Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Astronomie / Astrophysik
	Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Atom- / Kern- / Molekularphysik
	Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Hochenergiephysik / Teilchenphysik
	Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Quantenphysik
	Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Theoretische Physik
Schlagworte	CERN history and experiments • Dark matter and dark energy • History of particle physics • Large Hadron Collider • Observational cosmology • Origins of the Universe • Particle physics • Search for Higgs particle • standard model
ISBN-10	1-4419-5667-0 / 1441956670
ISBN-13	978-1-4419-5667-5 / 9781441956675
Zustand	Neuware