The Particle at the End of the Universe How the Hunt for the Higgs Boson Leads Us to the Edge of a New World

<b>Winner of the prestigious 2013 Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books</b><br><br><b>“A modern voyage of discovery.” —Frank Wilczek, Nobel Laureate, author of <i>The Lightness of Being </i></b><br><br>The Higgs boson is one of our era’s most fascinating scientific frontiers and the key to understanding why mass exists. The most recent book on the subject, <i>The God Particle</i>, was a bestseller. Now, Caltech physicist Sean Carroll documents the doorway that is opening—after billions of dollars and the efforts of thousands of researchers at the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland—into the mind-boggling world of dark matter. <i>The Particle at the End of the Universe</i> has it all: money and politics, jealousy and self-sacrifice, history and cutting-edge physics—all grippingly told by a rising star of science writing.