"On July 4, 2012, I, like many other people on Earth who were glued to their computer screens, learned that a new particle had been discovered at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) near Geneva."

Lisa Randall was on vacation in Kalymnos when she learned about the discovery of a new particle, the Higgs boson, at a small internet cafe. This discovery was the event that theoretical and experimental physicists had been waiting for decades, and it would either complete or transform everything we know about how the world works.

Lisa Randall, one of the most important theoretical physicists of our time, explains in this book what has changed in physics and what this exciting discovery has taught us about the universe.