Ever since the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) went online in 2008, physicists have been conducting experiments, hoping to finally prove or disprove the existence of The God Particle, otherwise known as the Higgs Boson. Yesterday, researchers working at CERN (which operates the LHC) announced that they think they’ve finally found it. In this video, Daniel Whiteson, a physics professor at UC Irvine, gives us a fuller explanation of the Higgs Boson and the LHC experiments that were used to confirm it. (via Open Culture)
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