The Origin of Mass: Elementary Particles and Fundamental Symmetries 1st Edition by John Iliopoulos (PDF)

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The discovery of a new elementary particle at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN in 2012 made headlines in world media. Since we already know of a large number of elementary particles, why did this latest discovery generate so much excitement? This small book reveals that this particle provides the key to understanding one of the most extraordinary phenomena which occurred in the early Universe. It introduces the mechanism that made possible, within tiny fractionsof a second after the Big Bang, the generation of massive particles.The Origin of Mass is a guided tour of cosmic evolution, from the Big Bang to the elementary particles we study in our accelerators today. The guiding principle of this book is a concept of symmetry which, in a profound and fascinating way, seems to determine the structure of the Universe.

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⭐Author gives an overview of the origin for the theory behind the Jiggs Boson. He delivers. There is just enough description of the mathematical background that an advanced lay person can understand. The book is not overwhelmingly verbose.

⭐Nice book

⭐After reading this book, I do not understand the origin of mass. I believe the people who understand this book are those who understand the origin of mass to start with.The author introduces the idea of symmetry in space. Certain symmetry gives rise to forces. However, the state of the space undergoes some kind of phase transition. This breaks the symmetry of the space and establishes some sort of correlation between particles. This correlation is mediated by the Higgs boson and gives rise to masses of the particles. I believe my understanding is probably not quite right. But this reflects the fact that the concepts behind the origin of mass are very advanced. Writing the book in plain English does not bridge this huge gap in my understanding.To be fair, this book does a pretty good job in presenting a rough idea and the logic of the theory. The appendices are also fairly well written and interesting. If there is a toy model that explains how gauge symmetry and spontaneous symmetry work, and finally gives rise to masses, then the book will be a lot more appealing to physics students.

⭐So much money for 70 pages.

⭐Don’t be fooled by what seems to be (finally) “the” book on the origin of mass, a detailed study of particle physics and the Higgs boson. Of course this book covers that stuff, but in a severely limited way. It’s difficult to decide who the audience is meant to be: interested layman, nuclear physicist or smart child.The hefty price seemed to indicate to me this was a big, hardcover book – textbookish in look and feel and content.It is not.It’s not much bigger than a kid’s ladybird book (remember those?), a few glossy photos (e.g. of newspaper headlines of the Higgs Boson discovery. Seriously?) and a telegrammatic (remember those?) narrative touching on the origin of mass. If I’d seen it in a bookshop, I’d not pay £5 for it, let alone 5 times that. Avoid.

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