Don Lincoln es un científico líder dedicado a hacer que las complejidades de la física de partículas sean accesibles para una amplia audiencia. Con una profunda comprensión del reino cuántico y el cosmos, se esfuerza por desmitificar estos fascinantes conceptos a través de sus escritos y conferencias públicas. Su trabajo se centra en iluminar los misterios más grandes del universo y la búsqueda de la humanidad para comprenderlos, basándose en su extensa experiencia en investigación. El estilo atractivo de Lincoln se caracteriza por su claridad y entusiasmo contagioso, atrayendo a los lectores al mundo subatómico.
All of the matter of the universe was concentrated at a single point, with temperatures so high that even the familiar protons and neutrons of atoms did not yet exist, but rather were replaced by a swirling maelstrom of energy, matter and antimatter. This book explains the world of quarks and leptons and the forces that govern their behavior.
The highest-energy particle accelerator ever built, the Large Hadron Collider runs under the border between France and Switzerland. It leapt into action on September 10, 2008, amid unprecedented global press coverage and widespread fears that its energy would create tiny black holes that could destroy the earth. By smashing together particles smaller than atoms, the LHC recreates the conditions hypothesized to have existed just moments after the big bang. Physicists expect it to aid our understanding of how the universe came into being and to show us much about the standard model of particle physics—even possibly proving the existence of the mysterious Higgs boson. In exploring what the collider does and what it might find, Don Lincoln explains what the LHC is likely to teach us about particle physics, including uncovering the nature of dark matter, finding micro black holes and supersymmetric particles, identifying extra dimensions, and revealing the origin of mass in the universe. Thousands of physicists from around the globe will have access to the LHC, none of whom really knows what outcomes will be produced by the $7.7 billion project. Whatever it reveals, the results arising from the Large Hadron Collider will profoundly alter our understanding of the cosmos and the atom and stimulate amateur and professional scientists for years to come.