フランク・クローズ『ヒッグス粒子を追え 宇宙誕生の謎に挑んだ天才物理学者たちの物語』（原書） The Infinity Puzzle

Close, Frank

Oxford University Press（2011/11発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 288 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780199593507
• DDC分類 530.143

基本説明

邦訳：2012年12月・楓書店。

Full Description

We are living in a Golden Age of Physics. Forty or so years ago, three brilliant, yet little-known scientists - an American, a Dutchman, and an Englishman - made breakthroughs which later inspired the construction of the Large Hadron Collider at CERN in Geneva: a 27 kilometer-long machine which has already costs ten billion dollars, taken twenty years to build, and now promises to reveal how the universe itself came to be. The Infinity Puzzle is the inside story of those forty years of research, breakthrough, and endeavour. Peter Higgs, Gerard 't Hooft and James Bjorken, were the three scientists whose work is explored here, played out across the decades against a backdrop of high politics, low behaviour, and billion dollar budgets. Written from within by Frank Close, the eminent physicist and award-winning writer, The Infinity Puzzle also draws upons the author's close friendships with those involved.

Contents

ACT I: GENESIS ; 1. The ultraviolet catastrophe ; 2. One in a million ; 3. The smile of the Cheshire Cat ; ACT II:THE ACT(OR)S ; 4. The infinity puzzle ; 5. Broken symmetries ; 6. Missed opportunities ; 7. Peter Higgs ; 8. Enter Gerard 't Hooft ; ACT III: REVELATIONS ; 9. BJ and the cosmic quarks ; 10. Quantum chromodynamics ; 11. Heavy light ; 12. The big machine ; 13. To infinity and beyond