Large Hadron Collider

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.

Long before we had the atomic theory of matter, scientists knew the air was real, even though it was invisible.

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.

Physicists are now almost certain the curious “Higgs-like particle” revealed at CERN last year is a Higgs boson.

You may have heard in the recent media that the world was going to end.