Sean Carroll – The Particle at the End of the Universe

It was the most elusive particle in the universe, the keystone of everything scientists dreamed of to explain how things worked. He had to be found. But projects as important as the Large Hadron Collider at CERN are not realized without negotiations and complicity, without incredible risks and without occasional shenanigans.

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Award-winning physicist and science popularizer Sean Carroll reveals the historical forces of insight, rivalry, and wonder that fueled Higgs research and how his discovery opens a door to the mind-boggling realm of dark matter and other phenomena we know never predicted.

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