So what the hell is a hadron, and why are they colliding large ones to find a Higgs botswain?
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What IS a Higgs boson, anyway?
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Everything is bits
To a casual observer, the Universe looks likes *really* complex. It isn’t. In this show we’ll discuss how just a handful of building blocks and the idea of beauty (or, rather, symmetry) produces diversity and complexity in the world around us. From atoms and molecules to the opus of science, the Standard Model of Particle […]
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