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The Higgs Boson: Have Scientists Found the Mystery Particle?

Kind
Internet Article
Date
3/8/2012
Publisher
Time Magazine
Retrieved
Mar 8, 2012

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Explanation of the Higg's Boson

Protons are more massive than electrons, for example, and electrons are way more massive than neutrinos. Photons have no mass at all. For most us, that's no more than a fun fact (and not all that much fun, really). For physicists, though, it's a mystery that demands a solution. Why are the masses so different — and…