'It's kind of amazing as Homer makes this prediction 14 years before it was discovered.' 'If you work it out you get the mass of a Higgs boson that's only a bit larger than the nano-mass of a Higgs boson actually is. To try to pin it down, scientists at the Large Hadron Collider near Geneva smashed together beams of protons – the 'hearts of atoms' – at close to the speed of light, recreating conditions that existed a fraction of a second after the Big Bang.Īlthough they would rapidly decay, they should have left a recognisable footprint. Every energy field has a specific particle that governs its interaction with what's around it. Without the Higgs field particles would simply whizz around space in the same way as light does.Ī boson is a type of sub-atomic particle. This was the theory proposed in 1964 by former grammar school boy Professor Higgs that has now been confirmed. This has been described as a kind of 'cosmic treacle' across the universe.Īs particles passed through it, they picked up mass, giving them size and shape and allowing them to form the atoms that make up you, everything around you and everything in the universe. Scientists believe that a fraction of a second after the Big Bang that gave birth to the universe, an invisible energy field, called the Higgs field, formed. The 'God Particle', also known as the Higgs boson, was a missing piece in the jigsaw for physicists in trying to understand how the universe works.
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