All You Need To Know About Higgs Boson: The God Particle
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The 94-year-old Nobel laureate Peter Higgs transformed physics in 1964 with his groundbreaking Higgs Boson theory
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The long-awaited finding of the mysterious Higgs Boson by the Large Hadron Collider in 2012 confirmed Peter Higgs' prediction from decades earlier
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Before their interactions with the Higgs field, which is a key component of our existence, particles were weightless at the beginning of the universe
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The Higgs field is defined as a quantum field that exists throughout the universe providing mass to particles
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The Higgs Boson is an essential particle that acts as a wave and provides mass to all other particles in the universe
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It interacts with things using vibration (oscillation), to accomplish that
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According to CERN, the Higgs boson has a huge mass of 125 billion electron volts, which is 130 times more than that of a proton
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The subatomic particles known as bosons are named after the Indian scientist Satyendra Nath Bose
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Physicist Leon Lederman's book, originally titled "Goddamn Particle," gave rise to the nickname "The God Particle"
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Peter Higgs's work not only advanced our knowledge of mass and particles but also showed the usefulness of theoretical predictions in scientific studies