Higgs boson

The observation that neutrinos have mass, which led to the 2015 Nobel Prize for Physics being awarded jointly to Japan’s Takaaki Kajita Japan and Canada’s Arthur McDonald, is important for two key reasons.

Prominent scientists have said “reality” cannot be viewed separately from human consciousness. Just because it’s all in your head, doesn’t mean it’s not real.

After two-years of upgrades and repairs, the Large Hadron Collider is back in the particle-smashing business—this time at double the energy of its first run.

Time and space could collapse if, at high energy levels, the Higgs boson particle becomes unstable, said Stephen Hawking in the preface to a new anthology of lectures titled “Starmus.”

The Large Hadron Collider earned its fame finding the Higgs boson particle, the so-called “God particle,” but it failed to find something very important it was looking for—superpartner particles.

In 1964, Belgian physicist François Englert proposed a solution to one of the universe’s central mysteries: how a particle gains mass.