About this book
A decade after the discovery of the Higgs Boson, the Large Hadron Collider at CERN still leads the world in the search to uncover what the universe is made of, how it was formed, and what fate may lie in store for it. If there is such a thing as a 'cutting edge', it surely lies 100 metres below the Swiss-French border, at the point where the beams collide. As part of a unique collaboration, this book pairs a team of award-winning authors with CERN physicists to explore some of the discoveries being made, through fiction. From interstellar travel using quantum tunnelling, to first contact with antimatter aliens, to a team of scientists finding themselves being systematically erased from history, these stories (and their accompanying afterwords) explore the dark matters that only physics can offer answers to. Authors include Sherlock and Dr Who writer Steven Moffat, novelist and Small Axe screenwriter Courttia Newland, Dame Margaret Drabble and SF legends Ian Watson (whose credits include the screenplay for the Spielberg's A.I.) and Stephen Baxter (winner of the Philip K Dick and John W Campbell Memorial Award).Featuring CERN physicist and engineers: Professor Lyn Evans, Professor John Ellis, Dr Andrea Bersani, Dr Tessa Charles, Professor Gino Isidor, Professor Jens Vigen, Dr Michael Davis, Dr Carole Weydert, Dr Joe Haley, Dr Kristin Lohwasser, Dr Pete Dong, Dr Daniel Cervenkov, Dr Andrea Giammanco.
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Table of contents
- Introduction
- Going Dark
- Afterword: The Unwritten Me
- The Grand Unification
- Afterword: Divine Symmetries
- Afterglow
- Afterword: Health and Safety Nightmares
- Marble Run
- Afterword: The Work-Life Balance
- Skipping
- Afterword:The Shortest Distance Between Two Points
- The Ogre, the Monk and the Maiden
- Afterword: Continuing to Think Big
- End Titles
- Afterword: Donāt Shoot the Messenger Particles
- Dark Matters
- Afterword: Uncertainty in a Dark Universe
- Side Channels to Andromeda
- Afterword: The Side-Channel Attack
- The Jazari Principle
- Afterword: Upping the Anti-
- Absences
- Afterword: Science for Peace
- Gauguinās Questions
- Afterword: Gauguinās Answers
- Cold Open
- Afterword: Cut to Black
- About the Authors & Editors
- About the Scientists
- Special Thanks
- In Memoriam
