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Il Bosone Di Higgs: L'invenzione E La Scoperta Della «particella Di Dio» (2013)

by Jim Baggott(Favorite Author)

3.77 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

8845927857 (ISBN13: 9788845927850)

languge

English

genre

Nonfiction

publisher

Adelphi

review 1: Not a bad book, but I don't feel it will stand the test of time once the current excitement over the discovery of the Higgs boson is over.It makes a good start with a discussion of Noether's Theorem about the connections between conservation laws and symmetries, but the discussion is not entirely convincing to a non-physicist - at least, it wasn't to this particular non-physicist. Subsequent references to the theorem hence feel like they have to be taken on trust, and this is not helped by the author resorting to references to "symmetry-breaking" without an explanation pitched at the right level intermediate between "pencil tipping over" and "lowest energy-state having less symmetry than higher-energy states". Symmetry breaking is such a core concept in the book that the... more author really ought to have looked for a way to explain this better.The book also suffers from a sense of repetition as one particle (or set of particles) after another is discovered or predicted, when any lay reader will already be boggled by the particles previously mentioned. And then there's references to how certain theories give rise to new particles - why? The author needs to explain why such theories imply the existence of new particles. Especially because the Higgs boson is just such a particle.On the positive side, the author writes well and there's plenty of good historical anecdotes. My review is a little negative because I found the book failed to help me advance my understanding - most of the explanatory content merely repeated simplistic stuff I already knew or repeated unfathomable stuff I had heard before but hadn't understood! I guess this isn't the book I'm looking for...
review 2: Interessante, perché oltre a raccontare le scoperte delle varie particelle e tutto quello che gli gira intorno tipo quark, gluoni, muoni, fotoni, etc.etc. l'autore presenta anche i vari autori delle scoperte, con i loro lati umani e con tutto lo sforzo che é costato arrivare alla comprensione che ci doveva essere una particella, il famoso bosone di Higgs appunto, che faceva parte di quel meccanismo che spiega come si forma la massa di tutte le particelle dell'universo, da qui il nome di "particella di Dio". less

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