The Higgs Boson and the Weak Force

The weak force turns out to be a little more tricky than the strong force and the electromagnetic force are. It only extends through space like 10 to the minus 18 meters, which is an awfully small distance. Peter Higgs and others in the 60s worked out a solution to this, but it involved this thing called the Higgs boson. The W and Z bosons that communicate the weak force weren't discovered in an experiment directly until the 1980s. And the Higgs took even longer. We saw the first definitive evidence for that at the Large Hadron Collider.