The Higgs Boson

Name: A Hole In Texas
Rating: 4.2 (5 reviews)
Author: Herman Wouk
ISBN: 9780316525909

A Hole In Texas

by Herman Wouk

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Mar 1, 2004, 288 pages

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Jun 2005, 288 pages

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The Higgs Boson

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The Higgs particle was first hypothesized by the Scottish scientist Peter Higgs in 1964. After taking a weekend walk in the Cairngorm Mountains he returned to his laboratory in Edinburgh on Monday and declared to his colleagues that he had just experienced his 'one big idea' and now had an answer to the mystery of how matter in the universe got its mass. Since then a few billion dollars have been poured into the quest to find the 'Higgs boson' - which, if it exists, has such a central role in defining the universe that it's also known as the God Particle.

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