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AMA | September 2022

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

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The Higgs Boson Is the Only One That Has No Charge and No Spin

The Higgs boson seems unique among all other particles as having no charge and no spin. Why is there only one particle that we've been able to discover? We knew about electrons and photons long before we do about the Higgs bosons. The fact that the mass of the Higgs Boson is so low compared to the Planck scale is a famous problem in particle physics.

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