“This is evidently a discovery of a new particle. If anybody claims otherwise you can tell them they have lost connection with reality.” –Tommaso Dorigo
Three years ago, we announced the discovery of the Higgs boson, the last undiscovered fundamental particle predicted by the standard model. In addition to the quarks, leptons, gluons, photon and W-and-Z particles, this was the last piece of the puzzle.
Image credit: Fermilab / E. Siegel.
But the Higgs boson meant something else: that the Higgs field was real, and was the thing responsible for giving mass to the Universe. That’s not a very intuitive thing, though! So how does it work?
Image credit: GNI Phoenix International, via DIYTrade.com.
Find out on today’s Throwback Thursday!
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“This is evidently a discovery of a new particle. If anybody claims otherwise you can tell them they have lost connection with reality.” –Tommaso Dorigo
Three years ago, we announced the discovery of the Higgs boson, the last undiscovered fundamental particle predicted by the standard model. In addition to the quarks, leptons, gluons, photon and W-and-Z particles, this was the last piece of the puzzle.
Image credit: Fermilab / E. Siegel.
But the Higgs boson meant something else: that the Higgs field was real, and was the thing responsible for giving mass to the Universe. That’s not a very intuitive thing, though! So how does it work?
Image credit: GNI Phoenix International, via DIYTrade.com.
Find out on today’s Throwback Thursday!
from ScienceBlogs http://ift.tt/1N6ygo5
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