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Tell Me About the Higgs Boson
The Higgs boson is a particle that was first proposed in 1964 by physicist Peter Higgs as a means of explaining why certain subatomic particles have mass. The existence of the Higgs boson was confirmed in 2012 by the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research. The Higgs mechanism, which…