Elusive : How Peter Higgs Solved the Mystery of Mass by Frank Close

Elusive : How Peter Higgs Solved the Mystery of Mass by Frank CloseThe story of the Higgs boson the so called 'God particle' and the man who thought of itIn the summer of 1964, a reclusive young professor at the University of Edinburgh wrote two scientific papers which have come to change our understanding of the most fundamental building blocks of matter and the nature of the universe. Peter Higgs posited the existence an almost infinitely tiny particle today known as the Higgs boson which is the key to

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