{"product_id":"the-great-experiments-that-shaped-darius-baxter-9798185729366","title":"The Great Experiments That Shaped Physics: From Galileo's Falling Bodies to the Higgs Boson, How Ingenious Tests Revealed the Laws of the Universe","description":"\u003cb\u003eEvery law of physics was once just a guess. Then someone built an experiment - and the universe answered.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA ball rolling down a ramp. A beam of light split by two slits. A sheet of gold foil bombarded with particles. These simple setups shattered entire worldviews and rebuilt physics from the ground up. This book tells the story of how. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDarius Baxter walks you through four centuries of the most ingenious tests ever devised, revealing not just what we know about the universe, but how we came to know it - in clear, vivid language anyone can follow. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eInside, you will discover: \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e- \u003cb\u003eGalileo's falling bodies\u003c\/b\u003e - the ramp experiments that overthrew two thousand years of Aristotle\u003cbr\u003e- \u003cb\u003eNewton's prism\u003c\/b\u003e - how a beam of sunlight in a darkened room revealed the nature of color\u003cbr\u003e- \u003cb\u003eYoung's double-slit\u003c\/b\u003e - the elegant test that proved light is a wave, then later proved it isn't only that\u003cbr\u003e- \u003cb\u003eThe gold foil experiment\u003c\/b\u003e - the shocking result that revealed the atom is mostly empty space\u003cbr\u003e- \u003cb\u003eA famous failure\u003c\/b\u003e - how Michelson and Morley's null result paved the road to relativity\u003cbr\u003e- \u003cb\u003eThe 1919 eclipse\u003c\/b\u003e - the expedition that bent starlight and made Einstein a legend\u003cbr\u003e- \u003cb\u003eSplitting the atom\u003c\/b\u003e - the tabletop discovery that changed history forever\u003cbr\u003e- \u003cb\u003eThe Higgs and beyond\u003c\/b\u003e - the Large Hadron Collider, gravitational waves, and the experiments still rewriting physics today \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrom Faraday's invisible fields to entangled particles and colliding black holes, this is the complete story of the question-askers and the machines they built to interrogate reality - with no equations required. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe universe answers those who ask well. Here are the greatest questions ever posed.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Darius Baxter\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798185729366\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/05\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 430\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.26lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.87d","brand":"Darius Baxter","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49084298199295,"sku":"9798185729366","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-great-experiments-that-shaped-darius-baxter-9798185729366","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}