Ten years ago, the discovery of the God particle ushered in a new era of experimental physics - Scroll.in


7/7/2022 12:00:00 AM2 years 9 months ago
by Martin Bauer, The Conversation

In July 2012, two independent experiments at Cern each collected enough data to declare the discovery of the Higgs boson.

Ten years ago, scientists announced the discovery of the Higgs boson, which helps explain why elementary particles (the smallest building blocks of nature) have mass. For particle physicists, this wa… [+6779 chars]

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