- Constitution, Higgs bosons, Matter, Particles (Nuclear physics)
The quest began in 430 B.C. when a Greek philosopher smelled bread baking and imagined that an invisible particle might be the building block of all matter. He called it the a-tom - "that which cannot be cut"--And its pursuit has become science's longest-running experiment.
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Warm, epic, plot-driven and spare.
- warmbleak
- intimateepic
- character-ledplot-driven
- sparerichly built
- classical in formformally daring
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- Author
- Leon M. Lederman, Dick Teresi
- First published
- 1993
- Pages
- 434
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Trade & Reference Publishers, Dell Pub.
- Editions
- 10
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780547524627
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“IN THE VERY BEGINNING there was a void - a curious form of vacuum - a nothingness containing no space, no time, no matter, no light, no sound.”
American mathematician and physicist
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