Photo by max. The Pioneering Work of Peter Higgs The scientific world mourns the loss of one of its most influential figures, as renowned British physicist Peter Higgs passed away on April 8, 2024 at the age of 94. Higgs' groundbreaking work in the 1960s laid the foundation for the discovery of the Higgs boson, a subatomic particle that has been hailed as the key to understanding the origin of mass in the universe. Photo by max . In 1964, Higgs published a revolutionary paper that proposed the existence of a new particle, which would later become known as the Higgs boson. This particle, often referred to as the "God particle" in popular media, was theorized to be responsible for giving mass to all other fundamental particles in the Standard Model of particle physics. The Long Road to Confirmation Higgs' prediction of the Higgs boson was met with skepticism by many in the scientific community at the time. It would take nearly 5...
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