The Large Hadron Collider (LHC), a 27 km long particle accelerator that straddles France and Switzerland just concluded its first test run. Nine thousand physicists were awaiting the result and then the champagne corks popped! The collider aims to replicate the few moments after the Big Bang. The scientists aim to find the Higgs Boson a.k.a. the "God particle". All these particle physics is gobbledygook to me, an ecologist, but this is what Wikipedia says about it "is a hypothetical massive scalar elementary particle predicted to exist by the Standard Model of particle physics ; it is the only Standard Model particle not yet observed. Experimental observation would elucidate how otherwise massless elementary particles nevertheless manage to construct mass in matter. More specifically, the Higgs boson would explain the difference between the massless photon and the relatively massive W and Z bosons . Elementary particle masses, and the differences between electromagn...
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