The Particle at the End of the Universe by Sean Carroll

5.5 out of 10

In July 2012 physicists at CERN announced that they had discovered the Higgs boson.  More precisely, they had detected the Higgs field that (under the Standard Model) creates the particle.  Even more precisely, the data collected at the Large Hadron Collider made it reasonable to assume that the particle--believed to account for the mass of particles in which it interacts and adds asymmetries to a complex evolving universe--exists.   Carroll shares the science, engineering and politics behind the discovery.