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Ologies with Alie Ward

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The Higgs Boson - A Big Problem in Particle Physics

Higgs particles make up the Higgs field, which is this big cloud of bosons or particles. They are what makes matter interact with gravity and have that mass be gravitationally attracted to each other. The possibility of the Higgs particle had vexed science for years. One leading scientist wanted to call it a goddamn particle but his book publisher was like, let's go softer.

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