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Higgs Boson Slideshow and Explanation

Velociraptor42

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With the Nobel Peace Prize in Physics for 2013 being given to those who worked on the discovery of the Higgs Boson, it only follows that the physics blog should have something on that.

This slideshow does a wonderful wonderful job of making the Higgs field relatable for the layman and explaining why it took so long to say why there is a "possible" discovery. Namely, it's impossible to find a Higgs boson straight out, but rather they have to search for its predicted decay pattern among billions of collisions. As for the nickname "God Particle", that was a joke among physicists because it was so important to the standard model yet so elusive and near impossible to find.

Basically, as much as I could go on explaining the history of the search and exactly what the Higgs Field does, the slideshow does a much better job with pretty animations too. So look at it. The velociraptor says so.

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