From the Great Wall to the Great Collider

Beautifully written … abstract physical principles are intertwined with pertinent stories of their discoveries, which makes reading the book an enjoyable, engaging experience.

In their exciting new book … Steve Nadis and Shing-Tung Yau brilliantly connect the dots between the Higgs discovery and China’s ongoing plans to build the world’s largest, most powerful particle accelerator… The book makes a great companion to popular physics titles like Stephen Hawking’s A Brief History of Time.

This neat little book about the current plans for the Great Collider ... is skillfully written with scientific explanations that are detailed, yet not overly technical.

… [a] forcefully argued history-cum-manifesto …

A very well-informed and topical book ... designed to make the case for a Chinese ‘Great Collider’ ... this book is the perfect place to read a serious account of what this proposal is and why it deserves to be taken seriously.

... explains the scientific issues at stake, discusses the history of particle physics, and tells the story of the birth and development of the Great Collider project.

A compelling, and very timely, book.

Building a large particle collider provides China a magnificent opportunity to take a lead role in exploring the most basic, unanswered questions in physics. This book, which makes the scientific and societal case for such a “Great Collider,” is a must-read for anyone interested in the quest to fathom the deep nature of physical reality.

Pushing back the frontiers of nature, and learning about the mysteries that await us at higher energies, is one of the great challenges of our time. In this fascinating book, Steve Nadis and Shing-Tung Yau show how China could lead the way towards meeting this challenge.

An inherently fascinating read… A compellingly informed and informative presentation…From the Great Wall to the Great Collider is ideal for the non-specialist general reader…

This is a great read—accessible to anyone interested in what could be the next big step forward in particle physics after the Higgs discovery.

A meditation on the mathematics and physics of discovering the elemental particles of the universe.

This engaging exposition of particle physics—past, present and future—offers readers a chance to learn about the ambitious plans for the world’s next great collider.

A wonderful journey through the centuries old quest to find nature’s most fundamental ingredients.

This beautiful book connects the long history of China’s culture to one of the most exciting adventures of modern science—and of the human mind.

The book is quite readable and understandable by non‑experts, and if you are interested to see how a big project is conceived and starts, and to follow the first steps of what could be the biggest scientific endeavour of the 21st century, [this] book is one you should not miss.