Collision
eBook - ePub

Collision

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  1. 336 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Collision

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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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Information

Publisher
Comma Press
Year
2023
eBook ISBN
9781912697854
Edition
0

Table of contents

  1. Introduction
  2. Going Dark
  3. Afterword: The Unwritten Me
  4. The Grand Unification
  5. Afterword: Divine Symmetries
  6. Afterglow
  7. Afterword: Health and Safety Nightmares
  8. Marble Run
  9. Afterword: The Work-Life Balance
  10. Skipping
  11. Afterword:The Shortest Distance Between Two Points
  12. The Ogre, the Monk and the Maiden
  13. Afterword: Continuing to Think Big
  14. End Titles
  15. Afterword: Don’t Shoot the Messenger Particles
  16. Dark Matters
  17. Afterword: Uncertainty in a Dark Universe
  18. Side Channels to Andromeda
  19. Afterword: The Side-Channel Attack
  20. The Jazari Principle
  21. Afterword: Upping the Anti-
  22. Absences
  23. Afterword: Science for Peace
  24. Gauguin’s Questions
  25. Afterword: Gauguin’s Answers
  26. Cold Open
  27. Afterword: Cut to Black
  28. About the Authors & Editors
  29. About the Scientists
  30. Special Thanks
  31. In Memoriam