Massive: The Missing Particle That Sparked the Greatest Hunt in Science
,
Ian
Sample
Basic Books, New York, 2010. $25.95 (272 pp.). ISBN 978-0-465-01947-2
In 2009 the Large Hadron Collider at CERN recorded its first particle collisions. In 2010 LHC experiments rediscovered all of the known elementary particles, from the neutrino to the top quark. In 2011 we plunge into the unknown. Thus it is a good time to bring out an entertaining book for the general public that explains where the LHC came from and what it is trying to accomplish.
With Massive: the Missing Particle That Sparked the Greatest Hunt in Science, Ian Sample, a reporter for the Guardian, seizes this opportunity. Sample’s book is not massive; at 260 pages of text, it’s a quick and enticing read.
Massive is hardly complete or balanced, but Sample knows how to tell a story....
