07-27-2023, 03:19 PM
God Particle Book Pack, For Those Who May Be Interested.
Some trivia, this may mean/be the new beginning of the New Mayan calendar. May the next 24,000 years be better than the last 24,000 years.
First Light: A History of Creation Myths from Gilgamesh to the God Particle
Author(s): GR Evans
Publisher: I.B. Tauris, Year: 2014
ISBN: 9780755623679,9781780761558
Description:
Did the universe start with a bang, or has it existed always? Was there a supernatural being behind it all, or just mindless forces? The beginning of things has forever tested the limits of curiosity, and such questions have both challenged atheists and inspired believers. Ancient cultures resorted to myth and symbolism to tell vibrant stories about human origins. Later civilizations added philosophical and scientific explanations: but these are not definitive. The nature and meaning of existence - the 'why' as much as the 'how' questions - are in the end mysterious. In this lively and wide-ranging book, G R Evans explores the world's myriad creation stories against the background of the biggest question there is: what are we doing here? Discussing Swahili legends that resemble the Book of Genesis, Greek tales about the Titans, Native American, Inca and Mesopotamian mythologies, and Vedic creation cycles that begin with a cosmic egg or seed, the author surveys polytheist, monotheist and dualist ideas about supernatural power.
Tracing the history of humanity as it has struggled, over many millennia, to make sense of itself, The Creation Myth will attract students of religion, history and philosophy and general readers alike.
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Beyond the God Particle
Author(s): Leon M. Lederman, Christopher T. Hill
Publisher: Prometheus Books, Year: 2013
ISBN: 1616148012,9781616148010
Description:
Two leading physicists discuss the importance of the Higgs Boson, the future of particle physics, and the mysteries of the universe yet to be unraveled.
On July 4, 2012, the long-sought Higgs Boson--aka "the God Particle"--was discovered at the world's largest particle accelerator, the LHC, in Geneva, Switzerland. On March 14, 2013, physicists at CERN confirmed it. This elusive subatomic particle forms a field that permeates the entire universe, creating the masses of the elementary particles that are the basic building blocks of everything in the known world--from viruses to elephants, from atoms to quasars.
Starting where Nobel Laureate Leon Lederman's bestseller The God Particle left off, this incisive new book explains what's next. Lederman and Hill discuss key questions that will occupy physicists for years to come:
* Why were scientists convinced that something like the "God Particle" had to exist?
* What new particles, forces, and laws of physics lie beyond the "God Particle"?
* What powerful new accelerators are now needed for the US to recapture a leadership role in science and to reach "beyond the God Particle," such as Fermilab's planned Project-X and the Muon Collider?
Using thoughtful, witty, everyday language, the authors show how all of these intriguing questions are leading scientists ever deeper into the fabric of nature. Readers of The God Particle will not want to miss this important sequel.
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The God Particle
Author(s): d**** Teresi, Leon Lederman
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin, Year: 1993
ISBN: 0395558492,9780395558492
Description:
The world's foremost experimental physicist uses humor, metaphor, and storytelling to delve into the mysteries of matter, discussing the particle accelerator and the as-yet-to-be-discovered God particle. 85,000 first printing. $100,000 ad/promo. Tour.
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Higgs: The Invention and Discovery of the 'God Particle'
Author(s): Jim Baggott
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Year: 2012
ISBN: 978-0-19-960349-7
Description:
The hunt for the Higgs particle has involved the biggest, most expensive experiment ever. So exactly what is this particle? Why does it matter so much? What does it tell us about the Universe? Did the discovery announced on 4 July 2012 finish the search? And was finding it really worth all the effort?
The short answer is yes. The Higgs field is proposed as the way in which particles gain mass - a fundamental property of matter. It's the strongest indicator yet that the Standard Model of physics really does reflect the basic building blocks of our Universe. Little wonder the hunt and discovery of this new particle produced such intense media interest.
Here, Jim Baggott explains the science behind the discovery, looking at how the concept of a Higgs field was invented, how the vast experiment was carried out, and its implications on our understanding of all mass in the Universe.
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The God Particle If the Universe Is the Answer, What Is the Question?
Author(s): Leon Lederman; d**** Teresi
Publisher: Mariner Books, Year: 2006
ISBN: 0618711686, 9780618711680
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Beyond the God Particle
cover
Author(s): Hill, Christopher T.;Lederman, Leon M
Publisher: Prometheus Books, Year: 2013
ISBN: 9781616148010,9781616148027,1616148012,1616148020
Description:
Two leading physicists discuss the importance of the Higgs Boson, the future of particle physics, and the mysteries of the universe yet to be unraveled.
On July 4, 2012, the long-sought Higgs Boson--aka "the God Particle"--was discovered at the world's largest particle accelerator, the LHC, in Geneva, Switzerland. On March 14, 2013, physicists at CERN confirmed it. This elusive subatomic particle forms a field that permeates the entire universe, creating the masses of the elementary particles that are the basic building blocks of everything in the known world--from viruses to elephants, from atoms to quasars.
Starting where Nobel Laureate Leon Lederman's bestseller The God Particle left off, this incisive new book explains what's next. Lederman and Hill discuss key questions that will occupy physicists for years to come:
* Why were scientists convinced that something like the "God Particle" had to exist?
* What new...
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God versus particle physics: a no-score draw: a psychological analysis of theories about life, the universe, and everything
Author(s): Davies, John Booth
Publisher: Andrews UK;Imprint Academic, Year: 2013
ISBN: 9781845405595,9781306056380,1306056381,1845405595
Description:
The book presents the conclusions of a psychologist seeking to make sense of contemporary particle physics as described in a number of popular science texts and media articles, written by physicists, seeking to explain the workings of the sub-atomic world. The accounts, it is argued, are a) mutually exclusive and contradictory, and b) metaphysical or magical in essence. Themes of the book include: a discussion of the way we allow physicists to invent things that have no perceivable qualities, on the grounds that they 'must' be there because otherwise their preconceptions are wrong or their sums don't work; that, from a psychological perspective, contemporary theory in particle physics has the same properties as any other act of faith, and the same limitations as belief in God; and that physics has now reached a point at which increasingly physicists research their own psychological constructions rather than anything which is unambiguously 'there' or real. It encourages people to ask basic questions of the type we often use to question the existence of God; such as 'Where is he/it?', 'Show me?', 'Do it then', 'When did it happen?', 'How do you know it exists?', and so on, and suggests that people take a leaf out of Dawkins' text, The God Delusion, but apply it to high-end physics as much as to religious dogma: turning water into wine is a mere conjuring trick compared to producing an entire universe out of nothing.
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Beyond the God particle - 2013
Author(s): Lederman, Leon and Christopher Hill
Publisher: Prometheus Books, Year: 2013
ISBN: 9781616148010,9781616148027,2013022346
Table of contents :
GOD PARTICLE
CHRISTOPHER HILL
BEYOND
LEON LEDERMAN
NOBEL LAUREATE
CONTENTS
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
INTRODUCTION
IRONY IN THE 90S
THE BIGGEST “EXOGENOUS INPUT” EVER
THE ROLE OF LEADERSHIP: THE US CONGRESS
IS IT RECOVERABLE?
LONG LIVE THE KING
THE GRAND SYNTHESIS
COMMISSIONING THE WORLD S LARGEST PARTICLE COLLIDER ISN’T EASY
OH, $%and#!
“ACH! IF I’D KNOWN THERE WOULD BE SO MANY PARTICLES I WOULD HAVE BEEN A BOTANIST INSTEAD.”
WHAT’S IN A NAME?
A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE BIG QUESTIONS
THE “PHYSICS AS AN ONION” METAPHOR
A SIMPLE HOME-BREW EXPERIMENT
PEERING INSIDE THE ATOM
THINKING THROUGH THE ATOM
QUANTUM WAVES AND COSMIC RAYS
THE MYSTERY DEEPENS: WHAT HOLDS THE ATOMIC NUCLEUS TOGETHER?
WHO ORDERED THAT?
THE LOWLY MUON
THE MUON IS NATURE’S PERFECT GYROSCOPE
PARITY
A PERSONAL RECOLLECTION OF THE DISCOVERY OF PARITY VIOLATION
ALL ABOUT MASS
WHAT IS MASS?
MASS IS A MEASURE OF QUANTITY OF MATTER
MASS IS NOT WEIGHT
MEASURING MASS CAN BE TRICKY
MASS IS NOT ENERGY
RELATIVISTIC ENERGY
E = mc2
BUT WHAT IS MASS?
MASS UNDER THE MICROSCOPE
THE MASSES OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES
NO MASS
SYMMETRY IN MASSLESSNESS
THE QUANTUM REALM
THE EMERGENCE OF QUANTUM IDEAS OF MASS
IT’S ALL IN THE VACUUM
HOW CAN I ESCAPE THE VACUUM?
Space-time
An event in space-time
An event in space-time
Sound emanating from firecracker event
Light emanating from firecracker event
Light emanating from firecracker event
MOTION IN SPACE-TIME
The motion of photons
x, space
The motion of muons
t, time
MUON AT THE SPEED OF LIGHT
CHIRALITY
A Right-Handed Corkscrew
THE SPACE-TIME PICTURE WITH CHIRALITY
THE FORCES OF NATURE KNOW ABOUT CHIRALITY
RESTORING MASS TO THE MUON
Figure 5.18. At the quantum level, a muon at rest has a definite spin, but it is oscillating rapidly between L and R chirality.
HOLD ON A MINUTE!
THE WEAK INTERACTIONS
AND THE HIGGS BOSON
THE WEAK INTERACTIONS
HOW DO THE WEAK INTERACTIONS WORK?
t, time
x, space
AYE, HERE’S THE RUB
t, time
x, space
μ-
ENTER THE HIGGS BOSON
t, time
x, space
BUT WHAT ABOUT MASS?
THE HIGGS VACUUM
x, space
t, time
LET’S TAKE A BREAK
MICROSCOPES TO PARTICLE ACCELERATORS
MICROSCOPES
TECHNOLOGICAL CHALLENGE
HOW DOES IT WORK?
MICROSCOPES THAT DON’T USE LIGHT!
PARTICLE ACCELERATORS
ELECTRIC FIELDS ACCELERATE CHARGED PARTICLES
THE ELECTRON MICROSCOPE
THE WORLD’S MOST POWERFUL PARTICLE ACCELERATORS
LINACS
SCRFS: THE NEXT BILLION-DOLLAR THING FOR THE ECONOMY?
MAGNETIC FIELDS MAKE PARTICLES MOVE IN CIRCLES
ELECTRIC CURRENTS PRODUCE MAGNETIC FIELDS
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CYCLOTRONS
SYNCHROTRONS
MAGNETIC LENSING
THE WORLD’S GREAT COLLIDERS
LHC
THE DETECTORS
BEYOND THE LHC?
RARE PROCESSES
PRELUDES TO PARTICLE PHYSICS
THE FIRST RAYS OF DAWN
INSPIRATION
RUTHERFORD’S RADIOACTIVITY
ANTIMATTER
filled negative energy states
un-filled negative energy state = “hole”
BETA DECAY: THE SIMPLEST WEAK INTERACTION
THEY DID IT WITHOUT COLLIDERS?
THE RARE WEAR PROCESSES
proton
THE OTHER LOOKING GLASSES
CPT
DOES ANY COMBINATION OF MIRRORS TAKE US HOME?
NEUTRINOS
THE PARTICLES WITH THE SMALLEST MASSES
NEUTRINO CP VIOLATION
LONG BASE LINES
PUTTING NEUTRINOS UNDER THE MICROSCOPE
PROJECT X
FERMILAB’S PROJECT X
PROJECT X NEUTRINO EXPERIMENTS
RARE KAON PROCESSES AND CP VIOLATION
RARE MUON PROCESSES: μ TO e CONVERSION
PROJECT X PROBES OF ELECTRIC DIPOLE MOMENTS USING RARE ISOTOPES
RIDDING THE WORLD OF PLUTONIUM AND PROVIDING ETERNAL CLEAN ENERGY: ACCELERATOR-DRIVEN SUBCRITICAL REACTORS
BEYOND PROJECT X: THE NEXT COLLIDER
Q: HOW TO BUILD A STARSHIP? A: START AT THE BEGINNING
BEYOND THE HIGGS BOSON
CONFUSED ABOUT BIG SCIENCE
THE CONNECTIONS
THE UNHEALTHY WEALTHY STATE
HOW DOES THE HIGGS BOSON GET ITS MASS?
FINALE
APPENDIX
THE STRONG INTERACTIONS
TOO MANY FUNDAMENTAL PARTICLES
THE STRATUM OF QUARKS AND LEPTONS
TODAY: THE PATTERNS OF QUARKS, LEPTONS, AND BOSONS
Gauge Bosons
Figure A.36. Table of Gauge Bosons. These are also the known “force carriers” and all are defined by “gauge” symmetries.
blue quark
blue quark
(blue anti-red) gluon
SPIN
EXCHANGE SYMMETRY
BOSONS
FERMIONS
GAUGE SYMMETRY
YANG-MILLS GAUGE THEORY
THE WEAK FORCE AS A GAUGE THEORY
NOTES
CHAPTER 1. INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER 2. A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE BIG QUESTIONS
CHAPTER 3. WHO ORDERED THAT?
CHAPTER 4. ALL ABOUT MASS
mv2, and p = mv.
CHAPTER 5. MASS UNDER THE MICROSCOPE
CHAPTER 7. MICROSCOPES TO PARTICLE ACCELERATORS
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CHAPTER 8. THE WORLD’S MOST POWERFUL PARTICLE ACCELERATORS
CHAPTER 9. RARE PROCESSES
CHAPTER 10. NEUTRINOS
CHAPTER 11. PROJECT X
CHAPTER 12. BEYOND THE HIGGS BOSON
APPENDIX
INDEX
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