Hoping for Higgs: Scientists worldwide have been anticipating the Large Hadron Collider more keenly than a child waiting for Christmas after Santa announces he has a twin brother, and this year they're both giving presents. You may have heard of this - you may even know they're after the Higgs boson - but for those of us without multiple PhDs, what does this thing actually do?
Light moves so fast it took millennia for people to realise it moved at
all.
Over time we learned that light
actually moved, and after an awful lot of competing theories we found
out about the photon - the quanta of electromagnetism, the smallest
possible unit, the elementary particle that shuttled back and forth
conveying the effects of the electromagnetic field.
Understanding the
photon revolutionized science, launching quantum theory into its
current position and resolved many of the age's impenetrable puzzles
while - in true scientific fashion - generating far more.
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Hoping for Higgs: Scientists worldwide have been anticipating the Large Hadron Collider more keenly than a child waiting for Christmas after Santa announces he has a twin brother, and this year they're both giving presents. You may have heard of this - you may even know they're after the Higgs boson - but for those of us without multiple PhDs, what does this thing actually do?