Minneapolis : Graphic Universe, [2017]
72 p. : chiefly ill. ; 24 cm.
This little comic book is more of an hors d'oeuvre than an entree, but there's nothing wrong with that. Weighing in at a mere 72 pages, and managing to convey the amazing science of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) without getting bogged down in its wild complexities, Latta has managed to create a work that should whet the reader's appetite to know more. It did mine!
Though the story-line is a bit corny (a little youngish for high school) the science is admirable. In one part of the book, in the space of just a couple pages she manages to cover most of the basics of the standard model: the six "flavors" of quarks, six kinds of leptons, the four fundamental forces and the bosons associated with them - and, of course, the most famous triumph of the LHC, the discovery of the Higgs boson in 2012.
It's nice to have a brief, very accessible book to recommend to a student who is not deep into advanced science, and yet wants to know about particle physics. If you know such a student, Smash! might be just what they need.
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