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The Higgs boson does a new trick (probably)

At the Guardian.

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Nobel prize: well done Higgs theorists but what about the experimenters?

Full credit to Higgs and Englert for Cern Large Hadron Collider discovery, but the Nobel falsely promotes view of ‘lone genius’ At the Guardian. See also Chapter 9.3 of Smashing Physics.

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The Higgs Boson: A Discovery

An article on the Higgs discovery in the New Scientist. I also wrote their 35th “Instant Expert” on the Higgs, around the same time. This was later adapted by them to be part of their book “Why the Universe Exists“.

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Is naturalness already hidden within the Standard Model?

At the Guardian.

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