“The God particle” will probably be the go-to phrase to describe the Higgs boson for decades. Lederman coined the phrase, which he called an “exercise in literary license” and which served as the ...
The concept of symmetry has seen increasing service in science popularizations as a metaphor to convey the intuitive appeal of physics, a vogue that continues in this dense treatise. Nobel Laureate ...
When he was young, Nobel laureate Leon M. Lederman read a children's book by Albert Einstein that changed the way he thought about science. Einstein compared scientific research to a detective story.