Atom Land: A Guided Tour Through the Strange (and Impossibly Small) World of Particle Physics [Hardcover]

Welcome to Atom Land, the impossibly small world of quantum physics. With awardwinning physicist Jon Butterworth as your guide, youll set sail from Port Electron in search of strange new terrain. Each discovery will expand the horizons of your trusty mapfrom the Hadron Island to the Isle of Quarks and beyond. Just beware of Dark Energy and other sea monsters!Journey into an unseen worldand to the frontiers of human knowledge Butterworth weaves a wonderful metaphor of the world of subatomic physics, sure to engage and enlighten laymen about the world of particle physics. . . . Written at a level accessible to a high school or liberal arts student, it still contains enough interesting material to make for enjoyable light reading for a science student. . . . A highly engaging and entertaining book. An amusing journey through the obscure world of particle physics . . . illuminates the murkiest of concepts. A charming, informative overview of particle physics . . . make[s] learning about this field almost effortless. Butterworth expertly handles even the thorniest theories and will satisfy world-weary scientists and amateur physics aficionados alike. A noble . . . effort to demystify quantum physics. Yearning for a late holiday? Bosonia, the Isle of Leptons and farthest Antimatter beckon in this bracing voyage into particle physics, captained by experimental physicist Jon Butterworth. Ever an original writer, he maps the territory of the standard model and beyond, elucidating in turn waveparticle duality, the quantum field and the subatomic realm, all the way to ripples in space-time and the hunt for the Higgs boson (which, as a veteran of the Large Hadron Collider at Europes physics lab CERN, he navigates expertly). Sea legs achieved, youre ready for wilder shores, such as the DiracMilne universe. A magnificent, compelling, and insightful voyage to the frontier of knowledge from a great writer with a deep understanding. These are exciting times for fundalcÙ