Skip to main content

Reset your password

Please enter the e-mail address you used to register to reset your password

Note: The verification e-mail to change your password should arrive immediately. However, in some cases it takes longer. Don't forget to check your spam folder.

If you haven't received the e-mail in 24 hours, please contact customerservices@ioppublishing.org

Registration complete

Thank you for registering with Physics World
If you'd like to change your details at any time, please visit My account

Close
History

History

Between the lines

01 Mar 2015 Margaret Harris
Taken from the March 2015 issue of Physics World

Tasneem Zehra Husain’s imaginative physics-history novel Only the Longest Threads and Peter Adey’s ramble through Air: Nature and Culture, reviewed by Margaret Harris

Image depicting particle traces from a “Higgs boson event” at the Large Hadron Collider’s ATLAS detector experiment
Meta-physics? Tasneem Zehra Husain used her experience as a physicist to write her novel Only the Longest Threads about the history of physics, including the discovery of the Higgs boson. (CC-BY-SA-4.0 Atlas/CERN)
Tangled threads In the opening scenes of Tasneem Zehra Husain’s novel-cum-physics history Only the

You’ve reached the limit of what you can view on Physics World without registering

If you already have an account on Physics World, then please sign in to continue reading

If you do not yet have an account, please register so you can

  • Access more than 20 years of online content
  • Choose which e-mail newsletters you would like to receive
Margaret Harris is an online editor of Physics World
Read previous

Ringing changes on vital information
Read next

Web life: International Year of Light 2015 Blog

Discover more from Physics World

Related jobs

Related events

Copyright © 2025 by IOP Publishing Ltd and individual contributors