The Mother of All Colliders

Three hundred feet below the French-Swiss border, a doughnut-shaped tunnel seventeen miles around is the home of the Large Hadron Collider, whose purpose is to accelerate subatomic particles to the speed of light - and then smash them head-on into each other. Why anyone would want to do that and how that whole thing happened is the subject of this book. It's the story of an amazing machine - how it evolved from a simple tabletop experiment into the colossus it is, how it works, and the prob...