02717nam a22004215i 4500001001800000003000900018005001700027007001500044008004100059020001800100024003500118050001200153072001600165072001500181072002300196072001500219072001400234100007800248245013700326250001800463264007200481300004500553336002600598337002600624338003600650347002400686505042800710520086701138650002202005650001302027650003802040650003902078710003402117773002602151776003602177776003602213856004602249978-981-97-2674-5DE-He21320251030112321.0cr nn 008mamaa240619s2024    si |    s    |||| 0|eng d  a97898197267457 a10.1007/978-981-97-2674-52doi 4aQC6.9-9 7aPDX2bicssc 7aPH2bicssc 7aSCI0550002bisacsh 7aPDX2thema 7aPH2thema1 aSanford, Thomas.eauthor.4aut4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut12aA Whirlwind History of the Universe and Mankindh[electronic resource] :bFrom the Big Bang to the Higgs Boson /cby Thomas Sanford.  a1st ed. 2024. 1aSingapore :bSpringer Nature Singapore :bImprint: Springer,c2024.  aXVIII, 235 p. 1 illus.bonline resource.  atextbtxt2rdacontent  acomputerbc2rdamedia  aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier  atext filebPDF2rda0 aPART I: Beginning -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Matter Universe -- 3. life -- PART II: Humans -- 4. Human Evolution -- 5. Agricultural Revolution -- 6. Mediterranean Development -- 7. Europe's Beginning -- 8. Transition: 1500-1700 (The Known World Expands) -- 9. Modernity: 1700-1900 -- PART III: Physics -- 10. Physics: 1700-1800 -- 11. Physics: 1900 -- 12. Physics: 1900-1950 -- 13. Particle Physics: 1950-2023 -- 14. Summary.  aThis book is an essential read for everyone who is curious about how we humans came to exist and interested in understanding the science and social evolution that enabled us to establish that a Big Bang actually happened. The text uniquely explains the transitions between the various evolutionary plateaus: from the universe’s beginning in the Big Bang, to the emergence of Homo sapiens, highlighting the Mediterranean civilizations of Greece and Rome, the European Renaissance, the English industrial revolution, and the early European science discoveries, particularly those in physics, to the American Manhattan Project and the subsequent development of the new field of high-energy particle physics. This entire route, which eventually culminated in the discovery of the mass-giving Higgs boson, is clearly articulated in this monumental but concise work. 0aPhysicsxHistory. 0aPhysics.14aHistory of Physics and Astronomy.24aConceptual Development in Physics.2 aSpringerLink (Online service)0 tSpringer Nature eBook08iPrinted edition:z978981972673808iPrinted edition:z978981972675240uhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-97-2674-5