Scientists at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) are expected to reveal on Wednesday the strongest evidence yet for the Higgs particle.
Anticipation is high and rumours have been rife about the announcement……
But why has so much time and effort been invested in detecting the boson?
“The Higgs boson gives other particles mass, which sounds simple,” Tara Shears, a particle physicist at Liverpool University, told BBC News.
“But if particles didn’t have mass, you wouldn’t have stars, you wouldn’t have galaxies, you wouldn’t even have atoms. The Universe would be entirely different.”
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