Lisa Randall
Author
Publisher
Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Sixty-six million years ago, an object the size of a city descended from space to crash into Earth, creating a devastating cataclysm that killed off the dinosaurs, along with three-quarters of the other species on the planet. What was its origin? In Dark Matter and the Dinosaurs, Lisa Randall proposes it was a comet that was dislodged from its orbit as the Solar System passed through a disk of dark matter embedded in the Milky Way. In a sense, it...
2) Most wanted particle: the inside story of the hunt for the Higgs, the heart of the future of physics
Author
Publisher
The Experiment, LLC
Language
English
Description
An award-winning physicist who led the historic hunt for the God Particle.
An Observer Top Ten Science and Technology Book.
Our understanding of the universe hinges on a baffling question: how does a sea of tiny, massless particles acquire mass? The answer, in theory, is a subatomic particle known as the Higgs boson. Sometimes called the God Particle, the Higgs is the missing link between the birth of our universe and the tangible world we experience....