Tag: CERN

Science in Brief:  The Higgs Boson

Science in Brief: The Higgs Boson

| July 7, 2012

Did you ever find yourself at a party and dying to explain the Higgs Boson? Well this explanation should suffice for scientists and non-scientists who want to dazzle their friends with their erudition. We know even from our own experience that once you get an object moving, it would continue moving unless something slows it […]

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The Higgs is Bigg!

The Higgs is Bigg!

| July 4, 2012

The Higgs is Bigg! I think the problem is too abstract for people to realize that the work that led up to detecting the Higgs and the importance of its detection is bigger than landing someone on the moon. It probably has something to do with the fact that the CERN LHC project is not […]

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