Summary: Through the Wormhole explores the deepest mysteries of existence, the questions that have puzzled mankind for eternity. The series brings together the brightest minds and best ideas from the very edges of science to reveal the extraordinary truth of our universe, and to raise even more philosophical questions.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Science 2014
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV THRSummary: Follow six scientists during the launch of the Large Hadron Collider, marking the start-up of the biggest and most expensive experiment in the history of the planet. As they seek to unravel the mysteries of the universe, 10,000 scientists join forces in pursuit of a single goal: to recreate conditions that existed just moments after the Big Bang and find the Higgs boson, potentially explaining...
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Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Distribution 2015
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV PARContents: Disc 1. Lectures: 1. The importance of the Higgs boson -- 2. Quantum field theory. -- 3. Atoms to particles -- 4. The power of symmetry -- 5. The Higgs field -- 6. Mass and energy Disc 2. Lectures: 7. Colliding particles -- 8. Particle accelerators and detectors -- 9. The large Hadron collider -- 10. Capturing the Higgs boson -- 11. Beyond the standard model of particle physics -- 12. Frontiers...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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Fresan, Rodrigo
Summary: ""A kaleidoscopic, open-hearted, shamelessly polymathic storyteller, the kind who brings a blast of oxygen into the room."-Jonathan Lethem. An aging writer, disillusioned with the state of literary culture, attempts to disappear in the most cosmically dramatic manner: traveling to the Hadron Collider, merging with the God particle, and transforming into an omnipresent deity -- a meta-writer --...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Open Letter 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FRECarroll, Sean M.
Summary: Examines the effort to discover the Higgs boson particle by tracing the development and use of the Large Hadron Collider and how its findings are dramatically shaping scientific understandings while enabling world-changing innovations.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 539.721 CARCarroll, Sean M.
Summary: Caltech physicist and author Sean Carroll offers listeners this profile of the Large Hadron Collider and the search for the mysterious Higgs boson particle, the subatomic building block that imbues elementary particles with mass. Carroll chronicles how such a complex project got off the ground in the first place and explains why this discovery is so important, and what it means for the future...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2013
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 539.721 CARClose, F. E.
Summary: "Speculation is rife that by 2012 the elusive Higgs boson will be found at the Large Hadron Collider. If found, the Higgs boson would help explain why everything has mass. But there's more at stake-what we're really testing is our capacity to make the universe reasonable. Our best understanding of physics is predicated on something known as quantum field theory. Unfortunately, in its raw form,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2011
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Summary: A science experiment goes wrong, giving everyone a glimpse of the future. One man learns a rival will steal his wife, another that he will win a lottery, a third that he will be murdered and has 20 years to find the killer. A look at the repercussions of knowing the future.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 1999
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SAWLincoln, Don
Summary: Picking up where he left off in "The Quantum Frontier, " physicist Don Lincoln shares an insider's account of the LHC's operational history and gives readers everything they need to become well informed on this marvel of technology.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Johns Hopkins University Press 2014