How the Hunt for the Higgs Boson Leads Us to the Edge of a New World
digital audio
English language
Published June 1, 2013 by Recorded Books.
Caltech physicist and acclaimed author Sean Carroll offers listeners this eye-opening profile of the Large Hadron Collider and the search for the mysterious Higgs boson particle, the subatomic building block that imbues elementary particles with mass. Here Carroll chronicles how such a complex project got off the ground in the first place and explains why this discovery is so important, and what it means for the future of physics.
Very good summary of both the history/prediction then the discovery of the Higgs Boson and the development of the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, with a good description of what the Higgs Boson and Higgs Fields do. There are appendices which go into slightly more technical detail.
I'm intrigued by the idea of bosons eating other bosons, so now I need to find another book to find out about their diet.
