The infinity puzzle: the personalities, politics, and extraordinary science behind the Higgs boson/

"The second half of the 20th century was a febrile time in theoretical physics. Quantum electrodynamics - the great achievement of the 1930s - was in trouble, yielding meaningless answers about the electron. How to resolve this 'infinity puzzle' and unify electromagnetism, the Weak Fo...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Close, Frank
Format: Printed Book
Published: Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013.
Subjects:
Quantum field theory.
Higgs bosons.
Large Hadron Collider (France and Switzerland).
Higgs, Peter.
Hoott, G T.
Bjorken, James D.
European organization for nuclear research.
Online Access:https://books.google.co.in/books?id=Po1ijAJEvq0C&printsec=frontcover&dq=The+infinity+puzzle:&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi1lJCQzcfMAhUCKJQKHYQ4AV8Q6AEIKjAA#v=onepage&q=The%20infinity%20puzzle%3A&f=false
Table of Contents:
  • The point of infinity
  • Shelter Island and QED
  • Feynman, Schwinger,...and Tomonaga (and Dyson)
  • Abdus Salam: a strong beginning
  • Yang, Mills,...and Shaw
  • The identity of John Ward
  • The marriage of weak and electromagnetic forces--to 1964
  • Broken symmetries
  • "The boson that has been named after me," a.k.a the Higgs Boson
  • 1967: from Kibble to Salam and Weinberg
  • "And now I introduce Mr. 't Hooft"
  • B.J. and the cosmic quarks
  • A comedy of errors
  • Heavy light
  • Warmly admired, richly deserved
  • The big machine
  • To infinity and beyond
  • Epilogue: the bonfire of the infinities.

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