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Stuff To Blow Your Mind

There Once Was a Boson Named Higgs

Stuff To Blow Your Mind

iHeartPodcasts

Social Sciences, Science, Life Sciences, Natural Sciences

4.36K Ratings

🗓️ 26 July 2012

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

If you're tired of hearing about the Higgs "don't-call-me-a-god-particle" Boson but still want to know what it is, then this is the podcast episode for you. In this episode, Robert and Julie recount our hunt for the Higgs and what it means for science.

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1:00.4

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1:34.4

Welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind from howstuffworks.com.

1:42.9

Hey, welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind. My name is Robert Lam. And I'm Julie Douglas.

1:46.9

And don't go away just yet. Me? No, it's a little listener because I know the title of this podcast

1:54.2

has higgs in it. Higgs boson. You know, it's LHC. It's all that stuff. It's subatomic particles.

2:00.4

It's subatomic physics. But please don't run off just yet because here's my take on all of this.

2:06.4

Just real quick. I kind of look at subatomic particles and particle physics is being kind of like

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