By Sean B. Carroll
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The never-before-told account of the intersection of a few of the main insightful minds of the twentieth century, and a desirable examine how conflict, resistance, and friendship can catalyze genius.
In the spring of 1940, the aspiring yet unknown author Albert Camus and budding scientist Jacques Monod have been quietly pursuing usual, separate lives in Paris. After the German invasion and career of France, every one joined the Resistance to aid unencumber the rustic from the Nazis, ascended to well-known, harmful roles, and have been very fortunate to outlive. After the struggle and during twists of situation, they grew to become neighbors, and during their passionate selection and infrequent expertise they emerged as top voices of recent literature and biology, every one receiving the Nobel Prize of their respective fields.
Drawing upon a wealth of formerly unpublished and unknown fabric amassed over numerous years of study, Brave Genius tells the tale of the way every one guy persevered the main poor episode of the 20 th century after which blossomed into terribly inventive and engaged contributors. it's a tale of the transformation of normal lives into unprecedented lives by means of remarkable events--of braveness within the face of overwhelming adversity, the flowering of artistic genius, deep friendship, and of profound predicament for and perception into the human condition.
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Even general relativity, Einstein’s brilliant theory of space and time, turns out to have down-to-earth applications. If you’ve ever used a global positioning system (GPS) device to find directions somewhere, you’ve made use of general relativity. A GPS unit, which you might find in your cell phone or car navigation system, takes signals from a series of orbiting satellites and uses the precise timing of those signals to triangulate its way to a location here on the ground. But according to Einstein, clocks in orbit (and therefore in a weaker gravitational field) tick just a bit faster than those at sea level.
You can hardly blame the journalists. As names go, God Particle is totally box office, while Higgs boson comes off as a bit inscrutable. But you can’t blame the physicists, either. The Higgs has nothing whatsoever to do with God. It’s just a really important particle, one that’s worth getting excited 42 about, even if that excitement doesn’t quite rise to the level of religious ecstasy. It’s worth understanding why physicists might be tempted to bestow godlike status on this humble elementary particle, even if it’s actually free of any theological implications whatsoever.
The main point is that without the Higgs boson, the Standard Model would look very different, and not at all like the real world. With the Higgs boson, it’s a perfect match. Theoretical physicists certainly tried their best to come up with theories that didn’t have a Higgs boson, or one in which the boson was quite different from the standard story. Many of the theories failed when confronted with the data, and others seemed unnecessarily complicated. None looked like a true upgrade. And now we’ve found it.