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Neil Turok: Most Theorists are WRONG! (#262)

Into the Impossible With Brian Keating

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What Is the Essence of the Gentle Kind Of?

Peter Higgs was a young lecturer in Edinburgh. He had a PhD student who got an offer from North Carolina at Chapel Hill to go for a postdoc. Peter wrote to Bryce de Whit and said, can I come instead. Freeman Dyson invited Peter to Princeton and then the rest is history. It's 50 years and 10 billion euros later they built the biggest experiment of all time. And they found the Higgs boson - but goldstone was there first.

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