Knocking on Heaven's Door : How Physics and Scientific Thinking Illuminate the Universe and the Modern World

from DLMorrese

An excellent book on scientific thinking in general and particle physics in particular. Much of it is about the LHC, what it is and what it does. The book was published about a year before the LHC announced the discover of the Higgs boson.

from Devil_llama

A theoretical physicist explains the Higgs, the LHC, and various other aspects of the Standard Model, supersymmetry, strings, and so forth. The author writes well, but this book directed at lay people is going to be tough going for most lay people. It isn't full of equations, which is a plus for ...

from chaosmogony

A nice summary of recent happenings at the LHC and, through that, a survey of contemporary physics. Randall's got an interesting perspective on the intersection of particle physics and cosmology, two topics which have fascinated me since I was a teenager, and this is a good overview of where thos...

from dpevers

A good explanation of current (as of the time of the book writing) particle physics and its relation to cosmology. I thought I understood this before reading the book, and I did at one level, but there was much new here. The book does move a bit quick at times, not glossing over concepts or detai...

from GlennBell

Interesting book largely on particle physics. The author is knowledgeable in this field and explains this area with reasonable clarity. She starts off with some rather basic physics and steps off in the area of forecasting. The discussion of forecasting is largely applied to the area of economics...