To find the Higgs, often called the God particle, which might flash across Atlas' layered detectors for a microsecond, researchers will have to process a staggering amount of information. Discovering the Higgs might seem an esoteric goal. But the search will have a powerful real-world spin-off: to process all that data, scientists are building a worldwide meta-network of PCs and it could mark the evolution of the Internet from a pervasive communications network into a powerful, global computation network.
- ISBN10 1904563422
- ISBN13 9781904563426
- Publish Date 31 December 2000
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 6 August 2007
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Trolley Books
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 128
- Language English