Episode · Lex Fridman Podcast · 2020-04-29
Books mentioned on #92 – Harry Cliff: Particle Physics and the Large Hadron Collider
Harry Cliff is a particle physicist at the University of Cambridge working on the Large Hadron Collider beauty experiment that specializes in searching for hints of new particles and forces by studying a type of particle called the “beauty quark”, or “b quark”.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Dreams of a final theory
Dreams of a Final Theory by Steven Weinberg is a popular science book that examines the grand quest of modern physics to discover a single, all-encompassing unified theory.
Recommended“so there's a great book by Steven Weinberg who is one of the theoretical physicists who was instrumental in building the standard model so he came up with some others with the electroweak theory the theory that unified electromagnetism and the weak force and here at this book I think it was towards the end of the 80s early 90s”
