Ian Sample

You could skip ahead to the last chapter ( which is the best ) Interesting part about the ' polywater ' catastrophe and all that. First place I've seen anyone talk about ' unparticles '

You could skip ahead to the last chapter ( which is the best ) Interesting part about the ' polywater ' catastrophe and all that. First place I've seen anyone talk about ' unparticles '

The Missing Particle that Sparked the Greatest Hunt in Science_, by Ian Sample, Basic Books, 2010. A science journalist's account of all things Higgs, including the many-person genesis of the idea of the Higgs boson, its relation to electroweak unification and the rest of the Standard Model, and the various particle colliders (the Tevatron, the never-built SSC, the LEP, the LHC) designed with hopes of detecting it.

Lucid captivating writing about how things are made up. Includes history leading up to the LHC at CERN. Beautifully summed up with descriptions of current theories and the implications of actually proving whether the Higgs Boson particle exists. Don't let the subject intimidate you because the author explains everything in lay person's terminology.