Infinity Puzzle – Frank Close Direct Beschikbaar

We are living in a Golden Age of Physics. Forty or so years ago, three brilliant, yet little-known scientists – an American, a Dutchman, and an Englishman – made breakthroughs which later inspired the construction of the Large Hadron Collider at CERN in Geneva: a 27 kilometre-long machine that cost ten billion dollars, took twenty years to build, and finally discovered a particle consistent with the Higgs boson. The Infinity Puzzle is the inside story of those forty years of research, breakthrough, and ende…