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Last week, scientists discovered what a fundamental particle called the (a k a The God Particle).
糖心视频 alumnus 鈥07, currently a research assistant at Duke University, was part of this exciting discovery.
鈥淭he discovery has very deep implications about the origin of mass in the universe鈥 reports Cerio, who is confident that it is the elusive Higgs boson, adding: 鈥淏oth teams announced discoveries yesterday with a statistical confidence of 鈥渇ive sigma,鈥 which means that the probability that it is a fluctuation, and not actually a particle, is one in a million!鈥
The Higgs boson particle was proposed by theoretical physicist Peter Higgs in 1964. Since that time, scientists have tried to build particle accelerators that could smash protons together with enough energy to uncover elusive particles.
The , the largest particle accelerator ever built, went online in 2010 and appears to be fulfilling the promise of finding these elusive particles.
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