AMONG popular books about particle physics, this one stands out – quite literally. It is the world’s first pop-up book about the Large Hadron Collider, the atom-smashing behemoth under the French-Swiss border.
Renowned paper engineer Anton Radevsky uses every trick in the pop-up book to recreate the universe, the LHC and the biggest of its four experiments, , and he does so to wonderful effect (see picture). It is fitting that complex paper engineering is used to reflects the LHC’s engineering achievements.
Voyage to the Heart of Matter is not without its flaws. Some of the pop-ups need a helping hand and at times the book is hard to navigate. Yet there’s a lot packed into its eight pages, and the level of detail in the illustrations guarantees you’ll spot something new each time you read it.
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Perfect for: teenagers who have studied the LHC at school or been lucky enough to visit CERN
Papadakis