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Why are scientists looking for the Higgs boson’s closest friend?

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Why are scientists looking for the Higgs boson’s closest friend?

Scientists at the world’s largest physics experiment have reported the most precise measurement yet of the most massive subatomic particle we know. The finding sounds esoteric but it wouldn’t be an understatement to say it has implications for the whole universe. The Greek philosopher Empedocles surmised 2,400 years ago that matter could be broken up…

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Peter Higgs, whose success as a physicist depends on whom you ask

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Peter Higgs, whose success as a physicist depends on whom you ask

Peter Higgs poses in front of an image of a detector of the Large Hadron Collider, November 12, 2013, in London. | Photo Credit: Toby Melville/Reuters The day the physicist Peter Higgs passed away, April 8, Google search results were rife with headlines that the man who proposed the “God particle” was no more. Dr…

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Peter Higgs, who proposed existence of Higgs boson particle, has died at 94, university says

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Peter Higgs, who proposed existence of Higgs boson particle, has died at 94, university says

Peter Higgs | Photo Credit: Scott Heppell/AP Nobel prize-winning physicist Peter Higgs, who proposed the existence of the so-called ”God particle” that helped explain how matter formed after the Big Bang, has died at age 94, the University of Edinburgh said Tuesday. The university, where Higgs was emeritus professor, said he died Monday “peacefully at home…

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