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Is the Higgs Boson useful?

Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe

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The Large Hadron Collider and Higgs Boson

Higgs boson doesn't live for very long. It's not like you can fill a glass jar with Higgs bosons that we've made at the LHC. We run this thing every 25 nanoseconds because most of the time when we smush particles together, boring particles come out. And so it's like one in a trazillion times a Higgs boson appears. They exist for like 10 to the negative 20 something seconds and then they decay into other stuff.

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