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The infinity puzzle : the personalities, politics, and extraordinary science behind the Higgs boson

"The second half of the 20th century was a febrile time in theoretical physics. Quantum electrodynamics - the great achievement of the 1930s - was in trouble, yielding meaningless answers about the electron. How to resolve this 'infinity puzzle' and unify electromagnetism, the Weak Force, and the Strong Force? In this vivid account, Frank Close describes the personalities, the intense competition, the frustrations and sudden insights, and the high politics and vagaries of chance that led to the world's most expensive experiment."--P. [4] of cover.

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  • "La quatrième de couverture indique : "The second half of the 20th century was a febrile time in theoretical physics. Quantum electrodynamics - the great achievement of the 1930s - was in trouble, yielding meaningless answers about the electron. How to resolve this 'infinity puzzle' and unify electromagnetism, the Weak Force, and the Strong Force? In this vivid account, Frank Close describes the personalities, the intense competition, the frustrations and sudden insights, and the high politics and vagaries of chance that led to the world's most expensive experiment.""
  • ""The second half of the 20th century was a febrile time in theoretical physics. Quantum electrodynamics - the great achievement of the 1930s - was in trouble, yielding meaningless answers about the electron. How to resolve this 'infinity puzzle' and unify electromagnetism, the Weak Force, and the Strong Force? In this vivid account, Frank Close describes the personalities, the intense competition, the frustrations and sudden insights, and the high politics and vagaries of chance that led to the world's most expensive experiment."--P. [4] of cover."@en
  • "Forty years ago, three physicists - Peter Higgs, Gerard 't Hooft, and James Bjorken - made the spectacular breakthroughs that led to the world's largest experiment, CERN's Large Hadron Collider. Against a backdrop of high politics and billion dollar budgets, this is the story of their work, the quest for the Higgs boson, and its eventual discovery."

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  • "The infinity puzzle : [the personalities, politics, and extraordinary science behind the Higgs boson]"
  • "The infinity puzzle : [how the quest to understand quantum field theory led to extraordinary science, high politics, and the world's most expensive experiment]"

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