Praise for 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.”
— Physics Today (April 2016)
Review available here.

“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.”
—Sabine Hossenfelder, Research Fellow at the Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies
(BackReaction physics blog, Jan. 13, 2016)
Review available here.

“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.”
—David Gross, Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics (winner of the 2004 Nobel Prize in Physics)

“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.
—Edward Witten, Institute for Advanced Study (winner of the 2012 Fundamental Physics Prize)

“This is a compelling, and very timely, book.”
—David J. Eicher, Editor, Astronomy magazine.
Review available here.

“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.”
—Joseph Incandela, University of California, Santa Barbara (winner of the 2013 Special Fundamental Physics Prize and leader of one of the teams that discovered the Higgs boson)

“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.”
—Juan Maldacena, Institute for Advanced Study, Winner of the 2012 Fundamental Physics Prize

“A wonderful journey through the centuries old quest to find nature’s most fundamental ingredients.”
—Brian Greene, Columbia University (author of The Elegant Universe)

“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.”
—Cumrun Vafa, Harvard University (winner of the 2008 Dirac Medal and 2014 Physics Frontiers Prize)

“… [a] forcefully argued history-cum-manifesto …”
—Nature magazine (Books in Brief), December 10, 2015

“…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.”
—CERN Courier “Bookshelf”, November 13, 2015
Review available here.

“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.”
—Peter Woit, Columbia University, “Not Even Wrong” blog, November 30, 2015
Review available here.

“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…”
—Midwest Book Review v. 15, no. 11, Nov. 2015 (Reviewer’s Bookwatch)
Review available here.

“A meditation on the mathematics and physics of discovering the elemental particles of the universe.”
—Harvard Magazine “Off the Shelf” (Jan.-Feb. 2016)
Review available here.

“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.”
—Foreword Reviews (February 2, 2016)
Review available here.

“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.”
—Dorigo Tommaso, a CERN particle physicist based at the University of Padua, writing in the blog, “A Quantum Diaries Survivor” (February 8, 2016)
Review available here.