I would love it if our resident experts could recommend excellent books that explain particle physics for laymen, rather than ask them to condense their understanding into useless short replies on a message board (which is like saying, "sum up, in ten words or less, the Hundred Years' War" - you can get an answer, but not a good one).
The problem is, I'm not really sure there /is/ a good layman's book. I mean, there is probably one that gives you the basics of what all the particles are and stuff, but things like the Higgs mechanism and whatnot really can't be explained without serious particle physics.
However, if you really are interested, I'll do some looking around to see if I can find a good book.
Who knows about particle physics?
- 07/07/2012 08:47:57 AM
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Many people; fortunately for you, some frequent this site. 
- 07/07/2012 10:48:26 AM
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- 07/07/2012 10:48:26 AM
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Well. It's kind of hard to make it simple.
- 07/07/2012 01:38:43 PM
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