More brilliant than the rocket’s red glare… =)
From physicist-surfer-savant Garrett Lisi’s post, this is “perhaps the most momentous day in particle physics of the century.
The Higgs boson [aka “God particle”] is the Holy Grail for particle physicists because it is the missing link that provides a description of how all particles get their masses and how they interact with the gravitational field.
Now that we know the existence of the Higgs boson, this is just as significant as finding out that, in fact, atoms do have these hard little nuclei. We don’t know what the implications will be decades down the line from this discovery, but they will surely be huge.”
An overview: Garrett Lisi’s video, and various anticipatory links below.
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