higgs boson
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How All Mass In The Universe Is Allowed To Exist
The Higgs boson discovery is a good excuse to learn a bit (and just a bit) about why it was so damn important in the first place. By now, you’ve probably heard that the Higgs is the final piece of the standard model of physics. But what does that actually mean?
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The Higgs Boson Simply Explained
So it seems science found “the God particle”. But, uh, if you didn’t already know what that was, you obviously haven’t read anything in-depth about the new boson. No problem. Here’s part one of the MinutePhysics rundown.
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Science Is Awesome: CERN Shows The Higgs Boson Is Real
Well, that went even better than we had dared hope. CERN has confirmed that its experiments so far have demonstrated the existence of the Higgs boson, which in turn suggests that the fundamental model of physics is accurate. Suck on that, science deniers!
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Did Scientists Finally Discover The Higgs Boson?
We’ve heard this clamouring before, but after years of experimenting and hypothesising, the UK Telegraph says that CERN — keepers of the Large Hadron Collider — will hold a press conference this week to confirm the existence of the Higgs boson particle, commonly referred to as the God Particle. It could be the biggest announcement/discovery…