A new book about 12 experiments that changed the world sidelines the role of beautiful theory in physics
- Written by: Sam Baron, Associate professor, Australian Catholic University
Simulation of lead ion collisions within the ALICE experiment at the Large Hadron Collider -- one of eight detector experiments.CERNThe Matter of Everything tells the history of physics through experiments. Any book about the history of science for a general audience will, of necessity, be something of a distortion. The question is whether the...