A prize-winning science writer’s history of the forty-year search for the Higgs boson, and the intense rivalries, clashing egos, and grand ambition that led to a world-changing discovery
Prologue1 Long Road to Princeton 12 Shadow of the Bomb 153 Seventy-Nine Lines 354 The Enchanted Prince 555 An Earnest Revenge 716 Reagan's Renegade 1037 Massive Maggie 1258 The End Is Not Nigh 1439 The Gordian Knot 16910 Chasing the Wind 18911 Hidden World 211Acknowledgments 223Notes 227Bibliography 245Index 249