A physicist presents a highly readable and entertaining exploration of asymmetry in the universe and an insider's look at the attempt to recreate the Big Bang in Switzerland in 2005. 20 line illustrations.
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A physicist presents a highly readable and entertaining exploration of asymmetry in the universe and an insider's look at the attempt to recreate the Big Bang in Switzerland in 2005. 20 line illustrations.
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New in New jacket. Book. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. First edition. Cloth binding, 259 pp. While modern scientific theory tended to describe a uniformly perfect and symmetrical creation, we now know if that were so, matter would have been destroyed within an instant of its appearance and nothing that we know could ever have happened. The mystery of how nature produces structured asymmetric patterns from an underlying uniformity is the focus of much current scientific research. Inspired by a chance encounter with a broken statue of Lucifer in the Tuillerie gardens in Paris, Frank Close takes the reader on a sweeping tour of asymmetry in the world around us, from the development of human embryos to Peter Higgs' hypothetical boson particle, and reveals that whenever asymmetry occurs in Nature, it points towards deeper truths. Close's tour culminates in the project underway at CERN, where he was the head of Communications and Public Education-to recreate the Big Bang in Switzerland in 2005, and thus to solve this mystery of the original asymmetry. "This is Frank Close's masterpiece--his best book, and one of the very best introductions to physics for the layperson."--Sunday Times (London). Mint condition, in protective mylar cover.
