Fantasy Turned Reality?; The Higgs Boson  

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Jenis: Article from Bulletin/Magazine
Dalam koleksi: The Economist (http://search.proquest.com/) vol. 401 no. 8764 (Dec. 2011), page 133-134.
Topik: Research & Development--R&D; Physics; International
Fulltext: Fantasy Turned Reality.pdf (43.65KB)

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Well, they've found it. Possibly. Maybe. Pinning down physicists about whether they have actually discovered the Higgs boson is almost as hard as tracking down the elusive subatomic beast itself. On December 13th two of the researchers at CERN's headquarters in Geneva announced to a breathless world something that looks encouragingly Higgsy. Leon Lederman, a leading researcher in the field, once dubbed it the "goddamn" particle, because it has proved so hard to isolate. That name was changed by a sniffy editor to the "God" particle, and a legend was born. Headline writers loved it. Physicists loved the publicity. CERN, the world's biggest particle-physics laboratory, and the centre of the hunt for the Higgs, used that publicity to help keep the money flowing.

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