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Well. Spriteling Send a noteboard - 07/07/2012 06:19:12 PM
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. :)
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Who knows about particle physics? - 07/07/2012 08:47:57 AM 2176 Views
Many people; fortunately for you, some frequent this site. - 07/07/2012 10:48:26 AM 895 Views
Thanks Joel :p *NM* - 07/07/2012 04:42:52 PM 493 Views
*is helping* - 07/07/2012 09:22:28 PM 795 Views
Well. It's kind of hard to make it simple. - 07/07/2012 01:38:43 PM 1005 Views
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Those ones are a little easier, maybe, to explain - 07/07/2012 06:49:52 PM 1013 Views
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I would ask a less obnoxious question. - 07/07/2012 03:47:16 PM 849 Views
Well. - 07/07/2012 06:19:12 PM 1024 Views
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physics geekasm. *NM* - 08/07/2012 02:33:05 AM 434 Views
I am at CERN right now, actually. - 08/07/2012 07:59:14 PM 1320 Views

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