Winner of the Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books
It was the universe's most elusive particle, the linchpin for everything scientists dreamed up to explain how physics works. It had to be found. But projects as big as CERN's Large Hadron Collider don't happen without dealing and conniving, incredible risks and occasional skullduggery.
Award-winning physicist and science popularizer Sean Carroll reveals the history-making forces of insight, rivalry, and wonder that fuelled the Higgs search, and explores why this particle holds the potential to change the world, much as the electron ushered in the age of nuclear energy and quantum computing. While the first sighting of the "God particle" essentially solves the riddle of why matter has mass, it also opens a door into the mind-boggling domain of dark matter and other phenomena we never predicted.
Told with unrivalled ambition, authority, and access to the competing research teams, this is the greatest science story of our time -- riveting and irresistible.
