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How Long Is Higgs Boson?

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In 1964, a British theoretical physicist by the name of Peter Higgs of the University of Edinburgh took some ideas and theories that were floating around at the time, added an insight or two of his own, and came up with the idea that there was an energy field that permeated the entire universe and its associated particle – the Higgs boson. The field he proposed extends throughout the universe, and interacts with matter particles in such a way as to give them mass.

Higgs was born in Newcastle upon Tyne, England, in 1929. In 1950 he graduated in physics at king’s college, London and secured his PhD four year later. [6]
Higgs was among a group of six theoretical physicists who, independently proposed a theory to explain how the building blocks of the universe have mass.
After an interaction the field leaves behind a revealing sign - the Higgs boson. Finding a Higgs boson would prove that the Higgs field exists [1] …show more content…

The problem with a Higgs boson is that it is extremely unstable, and collapses into smaller particles almost as soon as it is created. This meant that not only would scientists have to create the particle themselves, they would not even be able to detect it directly. Instead they would have to infer its presence from the smaller particles created when it breaks up. Only recently has there been equipment powerful enough to do this, inside the giant particle accelerator at Switzerland's CERN laboratory, known as the Large Hadron Collider.

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