Particle Physics: A Beginner's Guide

Gaining notoriety as the science behind the controversial experiments of the Large Hadron Collider, particle physics explores our most fundamental and mind-blowing problems: How did the Universe start? What are we made of? How small is the smallest thing? Without presuming any prior scientific knowledge, Brian R. Martin takes readers on a wide-ranging tour of the field, from its beginnings in nuclear physics to the discovery of quarks to present-day research into string theory, the mystery of antimatter, and the search for the elusive God particle.

• Author
• Brian R. Martin

• Format
• paperback

• Pages
• 224

• Series
• Oneworld Beginner's Guide

• Publisher
• Oneworld Publications

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 9781851687862

• Genres
• science, physics

• Release date
• 2011