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Reconcile Your LHC Shutdown Sadness With A Higgs Boson Watch
Are you having a hard time dealing with the Large Hadron Collider’s two-year maintenance shutdown? Do you miss waking up every morning to the potential of another big particle discovery in the news? Then strap this awesomely animated Higgs Boson watch to your wrist as a reminder that in no time the LHC will be back in business.
New Particle ‘Looking More And More Like A Higgs Boson’
Last July, scientists announced that had discovered what they strongly believed to be the Higgs Boson — but quirks in the data suggested that might not be the case. Now, however, CERN has announced that the observed particle is “looking more and more like a Higgs boson”.
LHC Experiments Suggest A Second Higgs Boson. That, Or Someone Forgot To Clean The Accelerator
The Higgs Boson is easily one of the most exciting discoveries made by science in recent times. Hopefully you saved some of that excitement for the second Higgs-like particle, which CERN may or may not have discovered. It really depends on how much they’ve had to drink, apparently.
‘The World Wide Web Is A Child Of The Hunt For The Higgs Boson’
When the discovery of the Higgs Boson was announced earlier this year, there’s no denying it was exciting news. Well, more so for scientists with the ability to put the find into context. For the average person? It’s a bit harder to understand. The find won’t be changing our daily lives any time soon… or indeed ever. But the journey to discovering the Higgs Boson? That’s reaped a few rewards, as CERN’s Troels Petersen explains in this TEDxCopenhagen talk.
The Higgs Boson Discovery Is Now Real Science
In July, scientists announced that they had discovered what they strongly suspected to be the Higgs Boson, a particle that is believed to be the key to unifying the standard and quantum models of physics. Further experiments in August made the finding more certain, and now the results have been peer-reviewed and published.
Disguising Physics In A Pop Tune Is A Great Way To Make People Care About Physics
When all else fails, turning to the most popular song of the year is a great way to make people care about whatever your’re trying to tell them.
The Higgs Boson Discovery Gets More Certain
In July, scientists announced that they’d discovered what they strongly believed to be the Higgs boson, a particle that’s believed to be the key to unifying the standard and quantum models of physics. Now, after more experiments, they’re even more certain that they’ve finally got it.
The Craziest Number You’ll See About The Higgs Boson Discovery
So sure, the Higgs “discovery” wasn’t really a discovery. More scientific fact checking, as our friends at MinutePhysics put it. But in the course of explaining all that, the number they dropped on our heads about confirming the existence of the Higgs statistically was mind-blowing.
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?
