The card is invisible. Eight travels in particle physics

What is the universe? What indivisible the element is based on it? For the past 60 years, scientists from all over the world have been trying to establish which particles of matter should be considered functional, and describe the forces that determine their behavior. By the same time, it was possible to create a standard model of elementary particles, of which everything around us consists.

in 2012, the Higgs boson was opened, and the map became more accurate, although it was outlined by new mysterious open spaces. ”A map of the invisible " - a guide to the standard model and foggy lands of physics of objects inaccessible to the human eye. The reader, compressing to the dimensions of the Subatomal particle, sequentially opens atoms, quarks, electrons and neutrinos, as well as the laws that they obey. This is a journey into the world of a strange and at the same time amazing - boundless cosmos, black holes, dark matter, and then - to the boundaries of human knowledge.