If you are looking for a book that trains your brain muscle and rekindle your lost ally of curiosity, this is a book to consider.
What is this book? “The particle at the end of the universe : how the hunt for the Higgs
boson leads us to the edge of a new world” by Sean Carroll.
It is a book on the journey of the discovery of the Higgs Boson particle. If this particle name sounds Greek to you, how about the other particles like electrons, protons or neutrons? Isn’t it amazing that the world is just made of a few basic particles yet yield such a pleasing variety for our eyes?
The author has done a cool job in journeying this discovery of the particle and its relationship to what makes up the mass of matters. He makes a seemingly PHD topic to quite an enjoyable read and is a test to the readers’ curiosity about what the world is made of.
Why would anyone care about the discovery of this new particle explaining the mass of matters and could also be proved later to be not completely right? This is not the kind of discovery straight to cancer cure, a new cool gadget or the like. Yet consider the discovery of Electricity centuries ago, how much do we rely on it on our daily life today? In its early journey of discovery, Electricity was little more than an intellectual curiosity.
Our innate curiosity has beaten us by pressures of real life. We stop long time ago asking how the world work, and rather figuring out how to make it work for us.
It is a refreshing but a sophisticated read.
It is on my list of the few books that I plan to continue its read when the library check-out has been due.
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