CERN and the Higgs Boson: The Global Quest for the Building Blocks of Reality Free Audiobook Download by James Gillies

The book begins with a discussion of the Higgs Boson and how it came to be. After several scientists attempted to create such a particle, they finally succeeded in 2012 at CERN. The Higgs Boson was only the first step in unraveling the secrets of our universe - there is much more yet to be discovered about what makes up our reality. This audiobook provides a great overview of the CERN project and why it is important for science around the world.

The search for a Higgs Boson - the particle that gives all matter its mass - is becoming an increasingly significant part of our understanding of the universe. This new discovery, according to author Jim Gillies, is part of a much larger story - one that involves big science and big business, weird technology and cultural wonderment.

On July 4, 2012, CERN announced that scientists at the Large Hadron Collider had found what appeared to be a new particle consistent with the Higgs Boson – predicted in 1964 by Peter Higgs as the long-sought mechanism that endows all other particles with mass.

In this audiobook, James Gillies, a science journalist and correspondent with the Economist magazine, tells us the story of how physicists at CERN in Geneva are using the Large Hadron Collider to try to prove the existence of a fundamental particle that is thought to be at the root of all known matter. The search for this particle has taken decades and cost billions of dollars.

In one audiobook, James Gillies leads us on a journey around the world to investigate the Higgs Boson, a theoretical particle that could potentially be involved in our understanding of how particles and forces interact in the universe. He also talks about how CERN was formed and what they are all doing at their facility. This audiobook by Dennis Kleinman is well-written and it's both exciting and enlightening.

The Higgs Boson is the elusive particle that has eluded physicists for decades. The book covers the scientific quest to find and understand this particle, from its possible discovery in Geneva, Switzerland in 1964 to the search for it in America's nuclear labs after World War II.