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What time is it and why?
The particles of which the universe is made don’t much care which way time goes. But we do, and so do the stars and the planets. At the Guardian.
A Strange Journey: Review of Atom Land
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Atom Land: A Guided Tour Through the Strange (and Impossibly Small) World of Particle Physics
Book review in Publishers’ Weekly. Butterworth (Most Wanted Particle), a CERN alum and professor of physics at University College London, explains everything particle physics from antimatter to Z bosons in this charming trek through a landscape of “the otherwise invisible.” … Continue reading
Book review
via A Map of the Invisible – Journeys into Particle Physics by Jon Butterworth