After Higgs Boson: Physics’ Next Move to Understand the Universe

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The Wall Street Journal

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🗓️ 18 March 2022

⏱️ 30 minutes

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It’s been more than a decade since the European Organization for Nuclear Research (known as CERN) discovered the Higgs Boson, using their gigantic particle accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider. After three years of upgrades, they’re turning the world’s largest machine back on. What secrets of the universe are they hoping to discover? Will there be another “God Particle” moment? And are these expensive, high-energy colliders the best way forward in physics? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:20.2	Physics, it rarely gets a moment in the sun.
0:23.2	If you're not a physicist, you probably don't hear all that much about things like
0:28.2	subatomic particles. But you may remember this one big thing that happened
0:33.5	about a decade ago. Physicists believe they have finally found the
0:37.8	Higgs boson, a subatomic particle that's a building block of the universe.
0:42.4	What is the energy that drives the Big Bang?
0:45.1	The Higgs particle could have the key to this whole cosmic puzzle.
0:49.4	Until today, the so-called God particle, the key to our understanding of the universe,
0:54.9	existed only in theory, but not anymore.
1:00.1	The so-called God particle, officially called the Higgs boson,
1:04.8	scientists at CERN, the European Particle Physics Lab,
1:08.8	using a gigantic machine known as the Large Hadron Collider, the LHC,
1:15.0	had been trying to recreate the moment after the Big Bang
1:18.7	when scientists positive that the whole of the universe expanded outward.
1:24.4	Back in the 1960s, physicist Peter Higgs had predicted we would find a subatomic
1:30.3	particle known as a boson that was there at the very beginning of, well,
1:35.6	everything, the origin of batter in the universe.
1:38.8	And in 2011, they did. They found it.
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