Ok, so we have all seen Brian Cox captivating spellbound audiences along with his silver tongue on the BBC, and alluding to the seek for the God particle – a.ok.a. Higgs boson. So what precisely is this ‘God particle’ and if it lastly is found what is going to change? The Higgs boson is a hypothetical elementary particle that’s predicted to exist by the standard Mannequin of particle physics and its existence, in simple phrases, will clarify why basic particles akin to quarks and electrons have mass. The particle was nicknamed the ‘The God Particle’ by Leon Lederman, an American
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