Zeptospace Odyssey-looks like the first witty LHC book

  • Thread starter Thread starter marcus
  • Start date Start date
  • Tags Tags
    Book Lhc
AI Thread Summary
Zeptospace Odyssey, authored by CERN theorist Gian Francesco Giudice, is gaining significant attention as a witty and engaging book on fundamental physics, released on January 25, 2010. The book features characters and anecdotes from historical figures like Bohr, leading up to contemporary topics such as the Large Hadron Collider. Giudice's adept use of language, metaphor, and humor has been noted as exceptional, surpassing even renowned physicist Brian Greene in style. The book has quickly climbed the charts, reaching the top of the physics bestseller list and currently holding the #2 spot overall, while consistently ranking #1 in the particle physics category. It is temporarily out of stock on Amazon, but a Kindle edition is available for immediate access. The "look inside" feature on Amazon allows potential readers to sample the content, and a PDF of the prologue is also offered.
marcus
Science Advisor
Homework Helper
Gold Member
Dearly Missed
Messages
24,753
Reaction score
794
Zeptospace Odyssey---looks like the first witty LHC book

Amazon let's you browse an ample sample of this new hip HEP book.
It's a fun book about fundamental physics with characters and anecdotes going back to Bohr and brought up to the Large Hadron minute.

Gian Francesco Giudice is a CERN theorist. Book hit the market 25 January, 2010.

The way he uses language, metaphor and imagery to convey physics ideas shows mastery, talent (plus a sense of humor). From what I can see, I think he makes Brian Greene look like a klutz.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/0199581916/?tag=pfamazon01-20

I used the "look inside" feature to browse around in it. They also have a PDF of the book's "prologue". I haven't looked at it. Hope it is up to the samples you get using the "surprise me" function.

See what you think.
 
Last edited by a moderator:
Physics news on Phys.org
This book is selling like crazy even though it is temporarily out of stock at amazon. So when you order you effectively get on a back-order waiting list.

Soon after coming on the market, it went to the top of the physics best seller list. And subsequently has been oscillating around the top. At the moment #2.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/bestsellers/books/227399/&tag=pfamazon01-20

It is steady at #1 place on the particle physics bestseller list.
They also are selling a kindle (electronic) edition where you don't have to wait---delivery is immediate.
 

Thread 'Book recommendation after Sakurai Modern Quantum Physics'

TL;DR Summary: Book after Sakurai Modern Quantum Physics I am doing a comprehensive reading of sakurai and I have solved every problem from chapters I finished on my own, I will finish the book within 2 weeks and I want to delve into qft and other particle physics related topics, not from summaries but comprehensive books, I will start a graduate program related to cern in 3 months, I alreadily knew some qft but now I want to do it, hence do a good book with good problems in it first...
View full post »

Thread 'Blennow to follow up Altland?'

TLDR: is Blennow "Mathematical Methods for Physics and Engineering" a good follow-up to Altland "Mathematics for physicists"? Hello everybody, returning to physics after 30-something years, I felt the need to brush up my maths first. It took me 6 months and I'm currently more than half way through the Altland "Mathematics for physicists" book, covering the math for undergraduate studies at the right level of sophystication, most of which I howewer already knew (being an aerospace engineer)...
View full post »

Hot Threads

Recent Insights

Back
Top