Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-223) and index.
Contents:
The history of CERN -- The practitioner: Rolf-Dieter Heuer -- The atomic theory of Democritus of Abdera -- Democritus' atomic model -- The beginning of modern physics: Galileo, Copernicus, and Kepler -- The experimentalist: Tejinder S. Virdee -- The four fundamental forces (interactions) -- Quotes by and about Newton -- Isaac Newton -- Dalton, Thomson, Rutherford, Bohr -- The man who built the LHC: Lyn Evans -- The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) -- Physics, music, and art: Tara Shears -- The theorist: John Ellis -- The standard model -- Oersted-Ampère-Faraday-Maxwell -- Hans Christian Oersted (1777-1851) -- André-Marie Ampère (1775-1836) -- Michael Faraday (1791-1867) -- Electromagnetic induction-classical field theory -- Electromagnetism: James Clerk Maxwell -- The communicator: Rolf Landua -- Edwin Powell Hubble (1889-1953) -- Albert Einstein (1879-1955) -- Einstein quotes -- The Japanese way: Masaki Hori -- Antimater I -- The Michelson-Morley experiment -- Antimatter II -- Einstein's cosmological constant -- The nobel prize laureate: Carlo Rubbia -- The Rubbiatron -- The American friend: Sebastian White -- The Flammarion engraving -- The Crab Nebula-Type II supernovae -- Type 1A Supernovae -- Friendly competitors: Sebastian White and Albert De Roeck -- ATLAS and CMS -- a healthy competition -- Rock 'n' roll, beer, billiards, and music: Jonathan Butterworth -- Beauty is where you find it -- The Higgs boson: and then?.
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