QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter
by Richard P. Feynman | 
Physics of the Impossible
by Michio Kaku | 
Black Holes and Time Warps
by Kip S. Thorne | 
Quantum Field Theory for the Gifted Amateur
by Tom Lancaster | 
Nightwatch
by Terence Dickinson | 
The Ocean of Life
by Callum Roberts | 
The Character of Physical Law
by Richard P. Feynman | 
What Is Mathematics? An Elementary Approach to Ideas and Methods
by Richard Courant | 
Einstein and the Quantum
by A. Douglas Stone | 
The Singularity Is Near
by Ray Kurzweil | 
Resurrection Science: Conservation, De-Extinction and the Precarious Future of Wild Things
by M. R. O'Connor | 
The Music of the Primes
by Marcus du Sautoy | 
The Machinery of Life
by David S. Goodsell | 
Theoretical Physics
by Georg Joos | 
Murmurs of Earth
by Carl Sagan | 
Power, Sex, Suicide
by Nick Lane | 
Understanding the Universe
by Don Lincoln | 
The Ocean World
by Jacques-Yves Cousteau | 
Every Day On Earth
by Steve Murrie | 
Cryptography Engineering
by Niels Ferguson |
This book provides a comprehensive overview of modern particle physics accessible to anyone with a true passion for wanting to know how the universe works. We are introduced to the known particles of the world we live in. An elegant explanation of quantum mechanics and relativity paves the way for an understanding of the laws that govern particle physics. These laws are put into action in the world of accelerators, colliders and detectors found at institutions such as CERN and Fermilab that are in the forefront of technical innovation. Real world and theory meet using Feynman diagrams to solve the problems of infinities and deduce the need for the Higgs boson.Facts and Mysteries in Elementary Particle Physics offers an incredible insight from an eyewitness and participant in some of the greatest discoveries in 20th century science. From Einstein's theory of relativity to the elusive Higgs particle, this book will fascinate and educate anyone interested in the world of quarks, leptons and gauge theories.This book also contains many thumbnail sketches of particle physics personalities, including contemporaries as seen through the eyes of the author. Illustrated with pictures, these candid sketches present rare, perceptive views of the characters that populate the field.The Chapter on Particle Theory, in a pre-publication, was termed '??superbly lucid'? by David Miller in Nature (Vol. 396, 17 Dec. 1998, p. 642).