Summary
The Higgs particle is the final cornerstone of scientists’ model of the material universe. The Large Hadron Collider at CERN was built so researchers could discover it.
Last week, they announced a partial sighting – the ghost of a Higgs particle hoving into view in their plethora of data. But it could be just a phantom, and may start to fade with more data next year.
Roland Pease meets the scientists who are chasing this legendary particle, and gets exclusive access to the preparations for next year’s experiments.
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| 0:50.3 | At last the legendary Higgs particle they say has been sighted, or almost. |
| 0:56.0 | Professor, look, on the screen. |
| 1:00.0 | The Higgs particle, it's so beautiful. |
| 1:05.0 | And it's inside all of us. |
| 1:08.0 | It's life. |
| 1:11.0 | If only the hypothetical bring of mass, not of life, would show up like that, but, |
| 1:16.7 | alas, the moment of revelation can never be like that. The Higgs particle, the last hypothetical cornerstone of the physicist model of the material |
| 1:25.6 | universe is not an iridescent butterfly you can catch and admire in a box. |
| 1:30.6 | The process is actually far more interesting. |
| 1:34.0 | I'm Roland Pease and for this edition of Discovery from the BBC World Service, |
| 1:38.0 | I went to CERN, the European Research Center, to hear what they're claiming about the Higgs |
| 1:43.0 | Higgs, how they did it, and what it's all about. |
| 1:46.0 | For one thing that much publicised moment the Higgs was glimpsed |
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