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Review: The Quantum Frontier by Don Lincoln

By Valerie Jamieson

29 April 2009

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As we wait for the Large Hadron Collider to restart, it’s an ideal time to take stock of the world’s most powerful particle accelerator

(Image: Maximilien Brice / CERN)

AFTER last year’s false start, the world is waiting for the most powerful particle accelerator to pick up where it left off. So it is an ideal time to take stock of the Large Hadron Collider.

The Quantum Frontier is one of the first popular books to appear about the LHC and it certainly won’t be the last. Don Lincoln quickly dispenses with the brouhaha over the LHC destroying the…

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