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Author
Publisher
The Experiment, LLC
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
xvi, 284 pages : maps ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"This book brings the impossibly small world of particle physics to life, taking readers on a guided journey through the subatomic world. With maps to help "guide" the reader through "Atom Land" along the way, as they learn about "electron ports," "boson continents," "hadron islands," and more"--
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
385 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"By an experimental physicist who works on the Large Hadron Collider, a mind-altering look at the foundational questions bedeviling modern physics, among them: Where does matter come from? Carl Sagan famously said, "If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe." But what fundamental matter is the universe made of? What banged in the Big Bang? And how did that matter arise from nothing into the world we now know?...
Author
Publisher
The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
vi, 212 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm
Language
English
Description
A guide to high-energy physics from the early twentieth century to the present, including such highlights as Ernest Rutherford's 1911 explanation of the nucleus, the newly discovered Higgs boson, and anecdotes about famous physicists.
Author
Publisher
MIT Kids Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
32 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
"Before you finish reading this sentence, trillions upon trillions of neutrinos will have passed through your body. Not sure what a neutrino is? Get an up-close-and-personal introduction in this dazzling picture book from MIT Kids Press, told in lilting rhyme from the neutrino's point of view and filled with illustrations that swirl and splash the cosmos to life. Some of the smallest bits of matter known to exist--and they exist everywhere--neutrinos...
Author
Series
Scientific American Library volume no. 28
Publisher
Scientific American Library
Pub. Date
[1995]
Physical Desc
x, 242 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm.
Language
English
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