内容简介
OnJuly4,2012,physicistsattheLargeHadronColliderinGenevamadehistorywhentheydiscoveredanentirelynewtypeofsubatomicparticlethatmanyscientistsbelieveistheHiggsboson.Forfortyyears,physicistssearchedforthiscapstonetotheStandardModelofparticlephysics—thetheorythatdescribesboththemostelementarycomponentsthatareknowninmatterandtheforcesthroughwhichtheyinteract.ThisparticlepointstotheHiggsfield,whichprovidesthekeytounderstandingwhyelementaryparticleshavemass.InHiggsDiscovery,LisaRandallexplainsthesciencebehindthismonumentaldiscovery,itsexhilaratingimplications,andthepowerofemptyspace.
作者简介
LisaRandallstudiestheoreticalparticlephysicsandcosmologyatHarvardUniversity,wheresheisFrankJ.BairdJr.,ProfessorofScience.Herworkhasmadeheramongthemostcitedandinfluentialtheoreticalphysiciststoday,andhasbeenfeaturedinDiscover,theEconomist,Newsweek,ScientificAmerican,andmanytop-rankedscientificjournals.ShehasbeenoneofTimemagazine’s“100MostInfluentialPeople”andRollingStone’s“RS100:AgentsofChange,”andhertwobooks,WarpedPassages:UnravelingtheMysteriesoftheUniverse’sHiddenDimensionsandKnockingonHeaven’sDoor:HowPhysicsandScientificThinkingIlluminatetheUniverseandtheModernWorld,werebothontheNewYorkTimes’listof100NotableBooksoftheYear.SheisamemberoftheNationalAcademyofSciences,theAmericanPhilosophicalSociety,andtheAmericanAcademyofArtsandSciences.Whennotsolvingtheproblemsoftheuniverse,Randallcanbefoundrockclimbing,skiing,orcontributingtoart-scienceconnections.HerlibrettoforHypermusicProloguepremieredatthePompidouCenterinParis
