TY - BOOK AU - Martin, Brian TI - Particle Physics: A Beginner's Guide SN - 9781851687862 U1 - 539.72 PY - 0000///012011/// CY - United Kingdom PB - Oneworld Publications KW - Particle & high-energy physics KW - Popular science N2 - Gaining notoriety as the science behind the controversial experiments of the Large Hadron Collider, particle physics explores our most fundamental and mind-blowing problems: How did the Universe start? What are we made of? How small is the smallest thing? Without presuming any prior scientific knowledge, Brian R. Martin takes readers on a wide-ranging tour of the field, from its beginnings in nuclear physics to the discovery of quarks to present-day research into string theory, the mystery of antimatter, and the search for the elusive God particle ER -