What is a Higgs Boson?
July 3, 2012 at 11:11 AM Leave a comment
Have you been wondering what a “Higgs boson” is? Higgs boson has been in the news lately because scientists think they’ve found it…whatever it is. At last, here’s an explanation we lay people can actually understand.
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Scientists at Cern, the Geneva-based European laboratory for particle physics, are revealing their latest findings in their search for the Higgs boson. Here, science correspondent Ian Sample – author of Massive: The Hunt for the God Particle – explains what a Higgs boson is, how Cern physicists are looking for it, and why it matters if they find it.
VIDEO HERE
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