Physicists capture the long-sought Higgs particle, which explains why other particles have mass
Web edition : Friday, September 7th, 2012
It took one of the biggest machines in the world to find one of the smallest particles.
Buried beneath the grassy countryside near Geneva, Switzerland, is a giant tunnel in the shape of a circle 8.6 kilometers (about 5 miles) across. There, scientists recently discovered a particle they had been hunting for a very long time: something called the Higgs boson. It helps explain how everything in the universe has developed mass.
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