Particle Physics - A Beginner's Guide (Beginner's Guides)

Gaining notoriety as the science behind the controversial experiments of the Large Hadron Collider | particle physics explores our most fundamental and mind-blowing problems: How did the Universe start? What are we made of? How small is the smallest thing? Without presuming any prior scientific knowledge | Brian R. Martin takes readers on a wide-ranging tour of the field | from its beginnings in nuclear physics to the discovery of quarks to present-day research into string theory | the mystery of antimatter | and the search for the elusive God particle.