Deep Down Things: The Breathtaking Beauty of Particle Physics

A useful scientific theory, claimed Einstein, must be explicable to any intelligent person. In Deep Down Things, experimental particle physicist Bruce Schumm has taken this dictum to heart, providing in clear, straightforward prose an elucidation of the Standard Model of particle physics—a theory that stands as one of the crowning achievements of twentieth—century science. In this one—of—a—kind book, the work of many of the past century's most notable physicists, including Einstein, Schrodi...