Finding God
this week at last brought the news that physicists around the world have been waiting five decades to hear: researchers working on the Large Hadron Collider at CERN have finally tracked down the elusive Higgs boson – an elementary particle nicknamed the ‘God’ particle because it fills the universe with an invisible energy field, giving every other particle its mass and so allowing us to exist
movie: an fly-through the CMS detector as it searches for the Higgs boson in 2011 and 2012 data, showing candidate ZZ event (7 TeV data, 2011) with four muons. as you do.
