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The Particle at the End of the Universe: How the Hunt for the Higgs Boson Leads Us to the Edge of a New World   Sean Carroll
Interesting, lucid, and up-to-date book about the “God particle.” Fascinated by the idea that there are no such things as particles, everything is really a field, and what we call particles are really vibrations or fluctuations in a field. Good background on particle physics, the history of colliders and what they do, and the LHC experiments. An excellent history of the development of “Higgs” theory. Very helpful diagrams and photographs. Good book for me, learned a lot.