Tag: Higgs boson
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Higgsdependence Day!
As the rumors hinted all week, this morning (9 AM Central European time, so 3 AM US Eastern time) researchers at CERN announced the discovery of a new particle with a mass of around 125 GeV. (1 GeV = 1 billion electron volts. Particle physicists often use energy units for mass, thanks to Einstein’s famous…
Galileo's Pendulum 