Higgs Discovery: The Power of Empty Space

Higgs Discovery: The Power of Empty Space

Softcover edition
Author Lisa Randall
Country United States
Language English
Subject Physics, cosmology
Genre Non-fiction
Published September 24, 2013
Publisher Ecco Press
Media type Print, e-book, audiobook
Pages 112 pp.
ISBN 978-0062300478
Preceded by Knocking on Heaven’s Door

Higgs Discovery: The Power of Empty Space is a short non-fiction book by Lisa Randall, in which she concentrates on the ideas discussed in her two previous books. Higgs Discovery was initially published on September 24, 2013 by Ecco Press.[1][2][3]

Review

Lisa Randall is a well-known theoretical physicist, Professor at Harvard and author of two previous, chunkier popular books on particle physics, cosmology and their implications. This ebook contains extracts from those books but the main content is a thirty page account of the significance of the discovery and of her personal experience of it (listening to the seminar in a cafe on a Greek Island, doing an interview about it halfway up a rock face...).

The style is informal and easygoing; the content is advanced. Randall goes beyond the poetic one-liners and beyond what any single news article could deliver in terms of explaining the significance of the discovery, how it was made, and what might come next. A lot of specialist terms are used, but most are introduced in a way which does not interfere with the impact of the narrative or the big picture Randall summarises. I think it will work well for non-specialists (certainly regular readers of this blog will have no worries).

—The Guardian[4]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Higgs Discovery: The Power of Empty Space by Lisa Randall". amazon.com. Retrieved 2015-08-20.
  2. ↑ "Higgs Discovery: The Power of Empty Space by Lisa Randall". goodreads.com. Retrieved 2015-08-20.
  3. ↑ "Higgs Discovery by Lisa Randall". harpercollins.com. Retrieved 2015-08-20.
  4. ↑ Butterworth, Jon (August 25, 2012). "Higgs Discovery: the Power of Empty Space by Lisa Randall". theguardian.com. Retrieved 2015-08-20.
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