Winner of the prestigious 2013 Royal Society Winton Prize for Science
Books
"A modern voyage of discovery." --Frank Wilczek, Nobel Laureate,
author of The Lightness of Being
The Higgs boson is one of our era's most fascinating scientific
frontiers and the key to understanding why mass exists. The most recent
book on the subject, The God Particle, was a bestseller. Now, Caltech
physicist Sean Carroll documents the doorway that is opening--after
billions of dollars and the efforts of thousands of researchers at the
Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland--into the mind-boggling world of
dark matter. The Particle at the End of the Universe has it all: money
and politics, jealousy and self-sacrifice, history and cutting-edge
physics--all grippingly told by a rising star of science writing.