Review: The Higgs Discovery: The Power of Empty Space
The Higgs Discovery is a short discussion of the recent Higgs Boson announcement from Lisa Randall. It includes a couple relevant chapters reprinted from a couple of her books. I picked it up because I wanted to know more about that announcement and what it means for physics. I’m not a physicist, of course, but I like to believe that I know enough to not completely make a fool of myself in intelligent discussion. This Higgs thing was outside my range, though, and I’d like to be less lost.
The Higgs Discovery helped. I’m far from completely understanding how this all works, or how we think it all works, but I’m doing better. After reading it, I have the beginnings of an intuition.
To an extent Discovery didn’t make things simple enough for me, and felt jargony where I thought that jargon wasn’t necessary. I’m picking nits. This is a very short primer on a complex topic in quantum physics. Randall’s goal has to be to tell me enough to get me interested enough to pick up a more complete discussion. Discovery did that very well.