The Higgs Boson: A scientific discovery that explains how the universe works

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🗓️ 4 July 2022

⏱️ 10 minutes

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It is 10 years since scientists in Geneva said they believed they had found the Higgs boson - known by some as the God particle. In July 2012 after more than 40 years of searching, two teams on different experiments at the Large Hadron Collider confirmed the existence of the particle which gives everything mass. Dr André David from CERN speaks to Laura Jones. (Image: Artistic view of the Brout-Englert-Higgs Field. Credit: CERN)

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0:30.5	On the 4th of July 2012, scientists in Geneva said they believe they had found the Higgs boson
0:37.3	known as the God particle.
0:48.3	The Higgs boson discovered after nearly 50 years of searching.
0:52.8	When you try to describe what it is, it sounds like a riddle,
0:56.7	something that can't be seen but is everywhere at the same time.
1:00.7	The Higgs boson makes the particle glue that holds everything in the universe together work,
1:06.0	and I mean everything from your ears listening to this through to the earth you're standing on.
1:10.9	British physics professor and TV presenter Brian Cox was delighted at the discovery.
1:16.0	It is without doubt in my opinion the biggest scientific discovery in my lifetime
1:19.7	and without doubt one of the biggest scientific discoveries of all time.
1:23.1	To explain how it was found, we need physicist Dr. Andre Davide.
1:30.4	It was gloomy and cold and snowy.
1:34.2	In the year 2000 he left his warm home of Portugal for his first visit to a
1:39.2	win-tree Geneva in Switzerland to CERN, the home of the world-renowned European
1:44.6	organisation for nuclear research.
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