{"product_id":"the-particle-at-the-end-sean-carroll-9780142180303","title":"The Particle at the End of the Universe: How the Hunt for the Higgs Boson Leads Us to the Edge of a New World","description":"\u003cb\u003eWinner of the prestigious 2013 Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"A modern voyage of discovery.\" --Frank Wilczek, Nobel Laureate, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Lightness of Being \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe Higgs boson is one of our era's most fascinating scientific frontiers and the key to understanding why mass exists. The most recent book on the subject, \u003ci\u003eThe God Particle\u003c\/i\u003e, was a bestseller. Now, Caltech physicist Sean Carroll documents the doorway that is opening--after billions of dollars and the efforts of thousands of researchers at the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland--into the mind-boggling world of dark matter. \u003ci\u003eThe Particle at the End of the Universe\u003c\/i\u003e has it all: money and politics, jealousy and self-sacrifice, history and cutting-edge physics--all grippingly told by a rising star of science writing.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Sean Carroll\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0142180300\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780142180303\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Dutton\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/27\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 400\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.65lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.30w x 0.90d","brand":"Sean Carroll","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43994745536767,"sku":"9780142180303","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_b6ea8e75-a794-4050-a948-e1d39a9c0722.jpg?v=1683331940","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-particle-at-the-end-sean-carroll-9780142180303","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}