The Matter of Everything: How Curiosity, Physics, and Improbable Experiments Changed the World

by Suzie Sheehy
@suziesheehy

A surprising, fascinating journey through the experiments that not only unlocked the nature of matter and shaped our understanding of the cosmos but also forever changed the way we live within it

“A book about the fundamental problems of physics written from a viewpoint I hadn’t come across before: that of the experimenter. A splendid idea, vividly carried out.” –Philip Pullman, best-selling author of His Dark Materials

Physics has always sought to deepen our understanding of the nature of matter and the world around us. But how do you conduct experiments with the fundamental building blocks of existence? How do you manipulate a particle a trillion times smaller than a grain of sand? How do you cause a proton to sail around a twenty-seven-kilometer-long loop 11,000 times per second? And, crucially, why is all this important?

Interview with the Author

Talks At Google 
Ep252 – Suzie Sheehy | The Matter of Everything: Twelve Experiments that Changed Our World
6/21/22           61 min

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Talk Nerdy with Cara Santa Maria 
Accelerator Physics w/ Suzie Sheehy
2/6/23           69 min

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The Michael Shermer Show 
318. Suzie Sheehy — The Matter of Everything: How Curiosity, Physics, and Improbable Experiments Changed the World
1/24/23            114 min

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Into the Impossible with Brian Keating 
What’s the Matter of Everything? Particle Physicist Suzie Sheehy on the INTO THE IMPOSSIBLE Podcast
2/22/23            71 min

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How To Academy 
Suzie Sheehy – The Matter of Everything
7/1/22             65 min

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