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The case for such an instrument is compelling: Even though the Standard Model can describe the behavior of particles with astounding accuracy, it is incomplete. The theory has little to say about the Big Bang, gravity, dark matter, dark energy, and other far-reaching phenomena.
This book explains how an ambitious new machine–on the scale of China's proposed "Great Collider"–could provide us with a fuller understanding of the origins of our universe and its most basic constituents.
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Illustrations | 29 pages of photographs |
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Pages | 214 |
Dimensions | 229 x 152 |
Date Published | 30 Oct 2015 |
Publisher | International Press of Boston, Inc |
Subject/s | Popular science   Particle & high-energy physics   |
Shing-Tung Yau is the William Caspar Graustein Professor of Mathematics and Professor of Physics at Harvard University, USA where he has served on the faculty since 1987. He is the winner of the Fields Medal, the National Medal of Science, the Crafoord Prize, the Veblen Prize, the Wolf Prize, and a MacArthur Fellowship. A member of the National Academy of Sciences, Yau has received honorary degrees from ten universities. He is also the director of six mathematical institutes in China. Yau has written and edited more than twenty books and is the editor of numerous mathematics journals. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.