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The second 50 % of the 20th century witnessed a methodical gold dash as physicists raced to chart the interior workings of the atom. The stakes were high, the questions were big, and there were Nobel Awards and everlasting glory to be received. Many mysteries of the atom came unraveled, but one continued to be intractable: what Frank Close calls the "Infinity Puzzle". The issue was simple to describe. Although evidently very powerful, quantum field theory - the fantastic success of the 1930s - was making one utterly ridiculous prediction: that one events experienced an infinite possibility of occurring. The solution is known as renormalization, which permits theory to match whatever we see in real life. It has been a powerful methodology, conquering three of the four fundamental forces of dynamics, and giving climb to the idea of the Higgs boson, the now much-sought particle that may be what gives framework to the world. The Infinity Puzzle graphs the beginning and life of the theory, and the researchers, both household names and unsung heroes, who realized it. Based on numerous firsthand interviews and intensive research, the booklet captures a time of great unknown and greater finding. Even if the Higgs boson is never found, renormalization - the quest for an orderly world - has led to one of the richest & most productive intellectual intervals in history. Having a physicist's knowledge and a historian's good care, Close represents the personalities and the competition, the dead ends and the abrupt insights, in a tale that will reverberate through the age ranges.
