Magazine article
Why the Higgs Is Such a Big Deal
Slate
08 Oct 2013
Abstract
But under no circumstances should you call it “the God particle.”
This morning, to the nearly universal expectations of the physics community, the 2013 Nobel Prize in physics was awarded to François Englert and Peter Higgs for the theoretical prediction of what has come to be known as the Higgs boson. Nobel Prizes (at least in the sciences) are almost always given out for a discovery rather than a prediction, so it wasn’t until last year, when two independent groups at the Large Hadron Collider detected the eponymous particle, that Englert and Higgs were even in contention. This year’s announcement represents an incredibly quick turnaround for a committee that has generally been fairly conservative in its awards. Einstein had to wait 16 years for his. [1st paragraph]
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- Title
- Why the Higgs Is Such a Big Deal
- Creators
- David M Goldberg - Drexel University, Physics
- Publication Details
- Slate
- Resource Type
- Magazine article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Physics
- Identifiers
- 991021906512404721