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The philosophy of the Higgs
By Michael Krämer, at the Guardian.
Birth of a new particle
From the switch-on of CERN’s Large Hadron Collider through rumours, hints, discovery and now increasingly precise measurements. The Higgs boson – so far – in a real data animation from ATLAS Read on at the Guardian.
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The Earth is nearly flat, and other scientific truths
At the Guardian. See aso Chapter 6.1 of Smashing Physics.
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Tagged Higgs, LHC, science fiction, Smashing Physics
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Tooth fairy quantum mechanics
The reason I can’t show you a Higgs boson is also the solution to a parental dilemma I do sometimes get asked “If you’ve found a Higgs boson, can you show me a picture of it?” Unfortunately, the answer … Continue reading
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