British scientist Peter Higgs poses in front of a photographic image of the Atlas detector at the Science Museum in London November 12, 2013.
Nobel prize-winning physicist Peter Higgs, who proposed the existence of the so-called “God particle” that helped explain how matter formed after the Big Bang, has died at age 94.The Associated PressBritish scientist Peter Higgs poses in front of a photographic image of the Atlas detector at the Science Museum in London on Nov. 12, 2013.
Higgs's theory related to how subatomic particles that are the building blocks of matter get their mass. This theoretical understanding is a central part of the so-called Standard Model, which describes the physics of how the world is constructed. In 2012, in one of the biggest breakthroughs in physics in decades, scientists at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, announced that they had finally found a Higgs boson.
And it needed the world's biggest atom smasher CERN's Large Hadron Collider to produce the extreme surge of energies simulating those one trillionth to two trillionths of a second after the Big Bang.
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