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Higgs boson discovery makes 2012 a landmark year for physics
2012 will go down in history as a landmark year, when physicists discovered a fundamental particle that may answer one of the greatest riddles of all. Investigators believe their discovery to be the long-coveted Higgs Boson, an invisible particle that explains the mystery of mass. Without the Higgs, say theorists,…
Is the hunt for the Higgs almost over?
European physicists on Wednesday will make an announcement that may solve a decades-old puzzle about the nature of matter, leave the question only part-answered or serve up yet another mystery. In a profession driven by rationality, particle scientists gave full rein to their emotions as they pondered what could lie…
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