How to make an apple pie from scratch : in search of the recipe for our universe, from the origins of atoms to the big bang / Harry Cliff.

"By an experimental physicist who works on the Large Hadron Collider, a mind-altering look at the foundational questions bedeviling modern physics, among them: Where does matter come from? Carl Sagan famously said, "If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the u...

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Main Author: Cliff, Harry (Harry Victor) (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Doubleday, [2021]
Edition:First edition.
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505 0 |a Elementary cooking -- The smallest slice -- The ingredients of atoms -- Smashed nuclei -- Thermonuclear ovens -- Starstuff -- The ultimate cosmic cooker -- How to cook a proton -- What is a particle, really? -- The final ingredient -- The recipe for everything -- The missing ingredients -- Invent the universe -- The end? -- How to make an apple pie from scratch. 
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