Jayakumar an experienced accelerator scientist tells the story of scientists growing understanding of high energy particles through the lens of the accelerators and colliders built to explore the diverse phenomena of high energy physics the author writes lucidly often revealing his passion for both the giant accelerators and the scientists mission to explore the world at the highest energies achievable summing up recommended all general readers and undergraduate . Particle accelerators colliders and detectors are built by physicists and engineers to uncover the nature of the universe while discovering its building blocks charming the cosmic snake takes the readers through the science behind these experimental machines the physics principles that each stage of the development of particle accelerators helped to reveal and the particles they helped to discover the book culminates with a description of the large hadron collider one of the . Particle accelerators colliders and the story of high energy physics charming the cosmic snake english edition ebook jayakumar raghavan amazonde kindle shop. Particle accelerators colliders and the story of high energy physics charming the cosmic snake by raghavan jayakumar 2011 10 26 raghavan jayakumar isbn 0784497418851 kostenloser versand fur alle bucher mit versand und verkauf duch amazon. The nordic mythological cosmic serpent ouroboros is said to be coiled in the depths of the sea surrounding the earth with its tail in its mouth in physics this snake is a metaphor for the univers skip to main content skip to table of contents advertisement hide search springerlink search home log in particle accelerators colliders and the story of high energy physics charming