Frank Close, "Elusive: How Peter Higgs Solved the Mystery of Mass" (Basic Book, 2022)
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The Higgs Bosons - A Journey Back in Time
When the universe cooled, the higs bosons were just a sort of condensed into this ground placid environment. And so feel like they've been dormant for 13 point eight billion years until at sern, we were able to focus so much heat energy into a small spot. In that brief moment, we replicated that first trillionth of a second and made a higgs bows on, oh, bubble out and reveal itself again. So that is what we've done. We've been on a journey back in time, in a certain sense. But the discovery was on the fourth of july. i was at a conference in a summer school in sicily with peter higgs
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