Science is patriotic!
Data from two different experiments smashing particles at the LHC give evidence of a new particle. Credit: CERN/Lucas Taylor
Everything you ever wanted to read about it–if you’re not a particle physicist or an extremely bright hobbyist–can be found at this trap!t trap set up by Ethan Siegel. For now, I’m content with the dummy’s summary from the UK’s Science Museum:
The Higgs boson was predicted in the early 60s as the particle that gives matter mass. Without mass, the universe as we know it would never have formed! It’s taken years of research by hundreds of scientists to find the new particle. More research is needed to ‘confirm’ the discovery but scientists predict the particle is the Higgs boson.
And, of course, the chosen emphasis of many a blogging scientist.
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