03055nam a22005055i 4500 978-981-97-2674-5 DE-He213 20251030112321.0 cr nn 008mamaa 240619s2024 si | s |||| 0|eng d 9789819726745 978-981-97-2674-5 10.1007/978-981-97-2674-5 doi QC6.9-9 PDX bicssc PH bicssc SCI055000 bisacsh PDX thema PH thema Sanford, Thomas. author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut 78977 A Whirlwind History of the Universe and Mankind [electronic resource] : From the Big Bang to the Higgs Boson / by Thomas Sanford. 1st ed. 2024. Singapore : Springer Nature Singapore : Imprint: Springer, 2024. XVIII, 235 p. 1 illus. online resource. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda PART 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. This 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. Physics History. 64549 Physics. 61293 History of Physics and Astronomy. 68040 Conceptual Development in Physics. 74654 SpringerLink (Online service) Springer Nature eBook Printed edition: 9789819726738 Printed edition: 9789819726752 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-97-2674-5 ZDB-2-PHA ZDB-2-SXP 60851 60851