August 13, 2004
'A Hole in Texas'
WHAT IT IS: A novel by Herman Wouk about a political furor set off when Chinese physicists discover the Higgs boson, a subatomic particle whose capture was a major goal of a real-life physics project, the Superconducting Supercollider. Congress killed the unfinished particle accelerator in 1993 for financial reasons. Mr. Wouk's satire features clashes among scientists, politicians, reporters, and even a Hollywood disaster-movie producer.
OUR EXPERT: Roy F. Schwitters was director of
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