WONDERING what all the hype over the Higgs boson is about? Look no further. Massive begins in 1966 from the perspective of Peter Higgs, the man who gave his name to the theoretical particle that reputedly gives all others their mass, as he drives to the conference where he will present his breakthrough idea.
But before finishing that story, Sample swings further back in time to explore our earliest conceptions of mass. Several more narrative circles take readers through the history of the theoretical framework, built over the last century, that describes the world of particles.
A hundred anecdotes bring…
