On July 4, 2012, scientists packed a large hall at the European Organization for Nuclear Research, also known as CERN, to hear the results of two experiments to find the Higgs boson, a particle so important in the realm of physics that it had been nicknamed “the God particle.” The detection of that elusive fundamental particle would confirm the existence of a field that gives mass to all other particles, such as electrons and quarks.“I think we have it,” Rolf-Dieter Heuer, then the director-general of CERN, announced to thunderous applause.Peter Higgs, the English scientist for whom the particle was named,...
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